Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step clostridium difficile toxin 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

$100.20

Cash price

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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.

$167.00

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.

$8.41 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $146.96 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 $8.41 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $11.84 ↓ -88%
Occunet Commercial $11.98 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11.98 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare $11.98 ↓ -88%
Aetna of PA Medicare $11.98 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $11.98 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $12.49 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $12.51 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $12.94 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.94 ↓ -87%
Cigna Medicare $12.94 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.94 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Commercial $16.76 ↓ -83%
Cigna Commercial $31.12 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $31.99 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $49.19 ↓ -51%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $79.80 ↓ -20%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $91.85 ↓ -8%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $125.25 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $133.60 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $146.96 ↑ +47%

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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step clostridium difficile toxin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $151.20 $11.84 – $201.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $72.00 $4.32 – $108.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $43.80 $6.59 – $62.05
UPMC Cole Coudersport $70.20 $7.79 – $93.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $43.80 $9.58 – $79.80
UPMC East Monroeville $126.00 $11.84 – $168.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $221.40 $11.84 – $31.43
UPMC Northwest Seneca $108.00 $10.86 – $12.94

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