Ventilator Management (first day) 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

$426.00

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.

$710.00

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.

$75.61 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $787.85 with Occunet — 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 $75.61 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $130.31 ↓ -69%
Cigna Commercial $145.55 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $155.47 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Commercial $261.28 ↓ -39%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $347.38 ↓ -18%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $390.50 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $390.50 ↓ -8%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $532.50 ↑ +25%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $563.58 ↑ +32%
Humana Commercial $568.00 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $624.80 ↑ +47%
United Healthcare Medicare $630.28 ↑ +48%
Aetna of PA Medicare $630.28 ↑ +48%
Humana Medicare $630.28 ↑ +48%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $656.88 ↑ +54%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $658.14 ↑ +54%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $680.64 ↑ +60%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $680.70 ↑ +60%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $680.70 ↑ +60%
Cigna Medicare $680.70 ↑ +60%
Occunet Commercial $787.85 ↑ +85%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Ventilator Management (first day) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $600.00 $130.31 – $800.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $832.80 $130.31 – $1,249.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,585.80 $86.13 – $2,246.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $293.40 $95.24 – $391.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,585.80 $86.13 – $2,246.55
UPMC East Monroeville $791.40 $130.31 – $1,055.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,341.60 $130.31 – $785.61
UPMC Northwest Seneca $691.80 $130.31 – $680.70

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