Ghs musc tst done w/nerv tst lim at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$249.60
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.
$416.00
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.
$32.07 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $366.08 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $32.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $45.21 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $45.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $47.13 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $54.23 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $57.97 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $61.22 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $71.08 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $76.87 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $93.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $128.13 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $152.49 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $153.09 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $208.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $312.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $332.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $366.08 | ↑ +47% |
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Ghs musc tst done w/nerv tst lim at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $278.40 | $27.89 – $371.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $86.40 | $18.85 – $76.87 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $260.40 | $45.88 – $115.30 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $249.60 | $43.80 – $107.75 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $260.40 | $44.85 – $76.87 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $348.60 | $36.21 – $319.00 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $316.80 | $44.43 – $86.93 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $268.80 | $44.85 – $89.38 |