Quant diff pulm perf and vent w/imaging at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$1,276.80
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.
$2,128.00
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.
$221.19 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,247.34 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $221.19 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $245.43 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $252.13 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $290.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $310.11 | ↓ -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 | $311.64 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $380.24 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $411.18 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare | $513.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $513.18 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $513.18 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $534.84 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/Partners/Select | $535.86 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $554.18 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $554.23 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $554.23 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $554.23 | ↓ -57% |
| Occunet | Commercial | $641.48 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $783.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,238.44 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,385.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,596.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,702.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,872.64 | ↑ +47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,247.34 | ↑ +76% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Quant diff pulm perf and vent w/imaging at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,137.00 | $192.34 – $1,516.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,574.40 | $251.97 – $2,230.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,030.80 | $234.28 – $1,374.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,574.40 | $251.97 – $2,247.34 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,878.80 | $245.43 – $538.84 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,574.40 | $251.97 – $822.74 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,235.00 | $245.43 – $595.77 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,574.40 | $251.97 – $827.18 |