Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$51.00
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$85.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$4.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $119.89 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $4.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.26 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $14.84 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $17.60 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $18.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $18.08 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $19.12 | ↓ -63% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $22.24 | ↓ -56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $27.27 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $31.02 | ↓ -39% |
| Occunet | Commercial | $37.42 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $37.42 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Medicare | $37.42 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $37.42 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $39.00 | ↓ -24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/Partners/Select | $39.07 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $40.41 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -21% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -21% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $63.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $68.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $74.80 | ↑ +47% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $77.93 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $119.89 | ↑ +135% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cytopathology concentration technique smears & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $193.20 | $4.00 – $257.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $100.20 | $8.65 – $150.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $78.60 | $5.24 – $111.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $159.60 | $16.80 – $212.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $85.80 | $5.24 – $111.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $108.60 | $8.53 – $144.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $153.00 | $14.02 – $80.77 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $96.60 | $8.61 – $77.93 |