Ablate heart dysrhythm focus at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$4,986.00
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.
$8,310.00
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.
$441.48 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $11,520.38 with Independent Health — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $441.48 | ↓ -91% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,246.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,334.05 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,718.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,077.50 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,098.47 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,134.45 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,493.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,493.00 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,519.65 | ↓ -49% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,742.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,324.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,324.00 | ↓ -33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $4,570.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4,570.50 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $5,401.50 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $5,610.03 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $5,817.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5,817.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $6,648.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $6,648.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $8,349.34 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8,516.33 | ↑ +71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $8,523.01 | ↑ +71% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $8,599.82 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $8,766.81 | ↑ +76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $8,933.79 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9,016.45 | ↑ +81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9,017.29 | ↑ +81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $9,017.29 | ↑ +81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9,017.29 | ↑ +81% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $10,521.84 | ↑ +111% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $11,520.38 | ↑ +131% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ablate heart dysrhythm focus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,823.80 | $441.48 – $9,098.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $8,922.00 | $1,016.56 – $12,639.50 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $8,922.00 | $1,016.56 – $12,639.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $8,922.00 | $1,016.56 – $11,598.26 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $8,922.00 | $1,016.56 – $11,660.91 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $8,922.00 | $359.83 – $11,641.97 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,998.40 | $441.48 – $7,957.77 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $7,078.20 | $445.69 – $7,957.77 |