Fine needle asp without image guide 10021 at UPMC Jameson

1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$500.40

Cash price

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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.

$834.00

Gross charge

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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.

$68.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $892.40 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $68.46 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicaid $70.33 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $80.92 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $86.51 ↓ -83%
Cigna Commercial $91.23 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $106.07 ↓ -79%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $163.43 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $207.65 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $238.00 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $375.30 ↓ -25%
Humana Medicare $380.90 ↓ -24%
Aetna of PA Medicare $380.90 ↓ -24%
United Healthcare Medicare $380.90 ↓ -24%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $396.97 ↓ -21%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $397.74 ↓ -21%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $411.33 ↓ -18%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $411.37 ↓ -18%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $411.37 ↓ -18%
Cigna Medicare $411.37 ↓ -18%
Occunet Commercial $514.22 ↑ +3%
United Healthcare Commercial $581.00 ↑ +16%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $625.50 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $667.20 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $733.92 ↑ +47%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $892.40 ↑ +78%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Fine needle asp without image guide 10021 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $501.00 $62.24 – $668.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,452.60 $65.35 – $2,178.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,056.00 $79.04 – $1,496.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $144.60 $30.21 – $2,325.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,056.00 $78.00 – $1,016.56
UPMC East Monroeville $978.60 $68.46 – $1,304.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,086.00 $68.46 – $554.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $478.80 $68.46 – $399.94

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