Air conduction bilat at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$117.00
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.
$195.00
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.
$8.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $215.57 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.80 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $9.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $9.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $11.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $12.06 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.49 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.14 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $13.63 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $23.27 | ↓ -80% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $29.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $39.71 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $43.04 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $48.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $58.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $58.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $63.54 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $64.35 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $72.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | EBR | $78.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $78.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $78.00 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $88.63 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $97.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $126.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $136.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $136.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $141.83 | ↑ +21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $144.78 | ↑ +24% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $146.08 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $148.92 | ↑ +27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $151.76 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $153.18 | ↑ +31% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $153.18 | ↑ +31% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $153.18 | ↑ +31% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $156.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $156.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $161.87 | ↑ +38% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $215.57 | ↑ +84% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Air conduction bilat at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $29.40 | $8.00 – $39.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $12.00 | $5.54 – $38.14 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $122.40 | $8.80 – $135.18 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $8.80 – $135.18 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $133.00 | $8.80 – $267.85 |