Echo guidance radiotherapy at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$421.80
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.
$703.00
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.
$19.25 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,962.24 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $19.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $81.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $216.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $351.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $386.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $386.65 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $432.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $527.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $562.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $618.64 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $634.23 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $728.51 | ↑ +73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,209.48 | ↑ +187% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,962.24 | ↑ +365% |
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Echo guidance radiotherapy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,656.40 | $728.51 – $1,617.54 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,080.40 | $728.51 – $1,212.48 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,755.80 | $89.53 – $1,564.19 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,718.00 | $623.24 – $974.64 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,199.00 | $21.43 – $849.45 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,412.80 | $629.17 – $1,011.11 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,427.80 | $20.09 – $1,231.83 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,704.00 | $629.17 – $930.28 |