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Liver Function Test 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

$87.60

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.

$146.00

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.

$8.08 with UPMC Work Partners vs $128.48 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 Work Partners Workers Comp $8.08 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $8.17 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $8.17 ↓ -91%
Humana Medicare $8.17 ↓ -91%
Occunet Commercial $8.17 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.17 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.51 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $8.53 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.82 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $8.82 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.82 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.82 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $9.93 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicaid $10.20 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.21 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $10.38 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $11.42 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $15.39 ↓ -82%
Cigna Commercial $21.21 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $22.07 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $33.79 ↓ -61%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $54.82 ↓ -37%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $109.50 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $116.80 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $128.48 ↑ +47%

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Liver Function Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $168.00 $8.08 – $224.00
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $201.00 $7.59 – $267.75
UPMC Hamot Erie $321.00 $8.08 – $374.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $54.00 $8.09 – $76.50
UPMC Altoona Altoona $156.00 $8.08 – $208.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $2.95 – $112.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $79.20 $5.31 – $105.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $54.00 $8.09 – $63.75

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