Gardner vag dna quant 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

$289.80

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.

$483.00

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.

$29.29 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $425.04 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.

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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $29.29 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $41.27 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $41.76 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $41.76 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $41.76 ↓ -86%
Occunet Commercial $41.76 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare $41.76 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $43.52 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $43.61 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $45.10 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $45.10 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $45.10 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $45.10 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Commercial $58.33 ↓ -80%
Cigna Commercial $108.43 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $112.76 ↓ -61%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $189.84 ↓ -34%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $265.65 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $308.00 ↑ +6%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $362.25 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $386.40 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $425.04 ↑ +47%

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Gardner vag dna quant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $544.80 $41.27 – $726.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $615.60 $15.07 – $923.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $232.80 $22.97 – $329.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $192.60 $27.14 – $256.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $232.80 $33.37 – $329.80
UPMC Hanover Hanover $232.80 $33.37 – $308.00
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $325.80 $37.39 – $78.36
UPMC Lititz Lititz $232.80 $33.37 – $308.00

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