Albumin, human 5 % intravenous solution at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$396.00
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.
$495.00
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.
$6.70 with UPMC Health Plan vs $396.00 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.
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 | $6.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $10.24 | ↓ -97% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $10.24 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.62 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $28.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $37.38 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $55.86 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $59.81 | ↓ -85% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $74.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $123.75 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $140.18 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $148.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $148.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Univera | Commercial | $163.35 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $173.25 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $182.16 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $198.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | EBR | $198.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $198.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $247.50 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $321.75 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $346.50 | ↓ -13% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $346.50 | ↓ -13% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $396.00 | ↑ +0% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $396.00 | ↑ +0% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Albumin, human 5 % intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $183.60 | $6.70 – $144.97 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $292.80 | $6.70 – $56.39 |