2d tte w or without fol w/con,co at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$811.20
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.
$1,352.00
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.
$202.80 with Univera vs $1,524.34 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $202.80 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $305.54 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $315.29 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $338.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $405.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $405.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $446.16 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $497.54 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $540.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $540.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $614.48 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $743.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $743.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $869.32 | ↑ +7% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $878.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $886.71 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $887.40 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $895.40 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $912.79 | ↑ +13% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $930.17 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $938.78 | ↑ +16% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $938.87 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $938.87 | ↑ +16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $938.87 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $946.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $946.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $952.72 | ↑ +17% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,010.76 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,081.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,081.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $1,346.13 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,524.34 | ↑ +88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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2d tte w or without fol w/con,co at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,441.20 | $315.29 – $1,921.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,434.80 | $318.29 – $3,246.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,071.20 | $683.10 – $813.49 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $957.60 | $674.37 – $813.49 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $957.60 | $320.85 – $941.54 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $2,037.00 | $1,368.16 – $3,197.08 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $942.00 | $318.29 – $828.55 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $1,085.40 | $318.29 – $828.55 |