#a/b/c/c/h pnl-candida albicans ab at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$94.20

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.

$157.00

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.

$11.87 with UPMC Work Partners vs $162.75 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.

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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 $11.87 ↓ -87%
Fidelis Medicare $12.01 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $12.25 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $12.26 ↓ -87%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $12.37 ↓ -87%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $12.37 ↓ -87%
Independent Health Commercial $12.37 ↓ -87%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $12.61 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.85 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.97 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.97 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $12.97 ↓ -86%
Cigna Medicare $12.97 ↓ -86%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $16.47 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Commercial $16.50 ↓ -82%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $16.60 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $18.26 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $19.09 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicaid $19.92 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.07 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $23.55 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $24.62 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $25.91 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $28.29 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $33.66 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $39.25 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $47.10 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $47.10 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $51.81 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $52.04 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $62.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $62.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $101.72 ↑ +8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $102.05 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $109.90 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $109.90 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $125.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $125.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $162.75 ↑ +73%

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#a/b/c/c/h pnl-candida albicans ab at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $121.80 $11.87 – $162.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $204.00 $4.33 – $306.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $66.60 $11.89 – $94.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $119.40 $7.81 – $159.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $66.60 $11.89 – $104.22
UPMC East Monroeville $260.40 $11.87 – $347.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $112.80 $10.89 – $19.09
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $212.40 $10.75 – $23.07

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