Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) 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

$2,674.80

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.

$4,458.00

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.

$104.54 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,923.04 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $104.54 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $107.40 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $123.56 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $132.10 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $161.97 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $413.89 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $596.53 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $636.50 ↓ -76%
Cigna Commercial $704.18 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $848.78 ↓ -68%
Humana Medicare $848.78 ↓ -68%
Aetna of PA Medicare $848.78 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Commercial $882.00 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $884.60 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $886.30 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $892.40 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $916.60 ↓ -66%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $916.68 ↓ -66%
Cigna Medicare $916.68 ↓ -66%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $916.68 ↓ -66%
Occunet Commercial $1,145.85 ↓ -57%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,006.10 ↓ -25%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $3,343.50 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $3,566.40 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $3,923.04 ↑ +47%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,647.20 $120.70 – $3,750.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $280.20 $56.83 – $771.51
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2,647.20 $128.30 – $3,750.20
UPMC East Monroeville $1,935.00 $104.54 – $2,580.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,674.80 $104.54 – $891.22
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2,647.20 $120.70 – $1,360.78
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,674.80 $104.54 – $1,140.40
UPMC Kane Kane $844.20 $104.54 – $1,022.24

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