Gallbladder and Bile Duct Scan (HIDA Scan) at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$1,359.00
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.
$2,265.00
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.
$211.84 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,993.20 with National Provider Network — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $211.84 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $246.64 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $266.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $273.53 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $314.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $336.44 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $399.27 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/Partners/Select | $400.03 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $412.52 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $413.71 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $413.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -70% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $433.78 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $446.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Occunet | Commercial | $478.88 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $703.75 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $833.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $945.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,698.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,812.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,993.20 | ↑ +47% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Gallbladder and Bile Duct Scan (HIDA Scan) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $473.40 | $208.17 – $631.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $823.80 | $138.22 – $1,235.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,228.80 | $280.58 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,164.00 | $254.16 – $1,552.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,228.80 | $54.60 – $703.75 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,619.00 | $193.59 – $3,492.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $652.20 | $208.17 – $546.54 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $855.60 | $195.39 – $446.10 |