Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at UPMC Hamot

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

$42,856.80

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.

$71,428.00

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.

$2,815.00 with United Healthcare vs $57,142.40 with InterGroup — 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 Commercial $2,815.00 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $5,610.03 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7,492.09 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $7,619.54 ↓ -82%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $10,714.20 ↓ -75%
Independent Health Commercial $11,318.28 ↓ -74%
Fidelis Medicare $14,157.62 ↓ -67%
Aetna Medicare $14,440.77 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $14,452.10 ↓ -66%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $14,582.35 ↓ -66%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $14,865.50 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Medicare $15,148.65 ↓ -65%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $15,288.81 ↓ -64%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $15,290.23 ↓ -64%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $15,290.23 ↓ -64%
Cigna Medicare $15,290.23 ↓ -64%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $17,841.43 ↓ -58%
Aetna Commercial $17,857.00 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $21,428.40 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $21,428.40 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $23,024.22 ↓ -46%
Univera Commercial $23,571.24 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $27,909.89 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $28,571.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $28,571.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $36,838.42 ↓ -14%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $39,285.40 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $39,285.40 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $46,428.20 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $49,999.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $49,999.60 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $57,142.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $57,142.40 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $12,743.40 $1,016.56 – $19,693.86
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $12,743.40 $1,016.56 – $22,480.14
UPMC East Monroeville $39,336.00 $7,492.09 – $52,448.00
UPMC Hanover Hanover $12,743.40 $1,016.56 – $22,480.14
UPMC Lititz Lititz $12,743.40 $1,016.56 – $22,480.14
UPMC Memorial York $12,743.40 $1,016.56 – $22,480.14
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $41,445.60 $931.20 – $13,493.67
UPMC Somerset Somerset $12,743.40 $892.40 – $13,247.10

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