Afamelanotide implant, 1 mg at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$6,733.80
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.
$11,223.00
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.
$1,364.81 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $8,978.40 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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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 | $1,364.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,683.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,805.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $2,943.42 | ↓ -56% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,996.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $2,996.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,002.29 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,004.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,031.72 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $3,090.59 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,149.46 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,178.35 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,178.60 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,178.89 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,178.89 | ↓ -53% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,178.89 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,366.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,366.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,591.66 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $3,703.59 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $3,928.05 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,130.06 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $4,489.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,489.20 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $5,100.85 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,746.66 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $6,172.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6,172.65 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $7,294.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $7,856.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $7,856.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $8,978.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $8,978.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Afamelanotide implant, 1 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,227.40 | $1,364.81 – $8,303.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $6,529.20 | $1,061.99 – $9,793.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,529.20 | $2,669.39 – $3,178.89 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $6,529.20 | $2,635.24 – $3,478.32 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $140,689.80 | $1,377.80 – $3,178.89 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $6,529.20 | $1,377.80 – $3,237.76 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,529.20 | $1,364.81 – $3,237.76 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $140,689.80 | $1,377.80 – $3,237.76 |