Amplification real-time pcr dna markers infectious disease bacterial vaginosis and vaginitis at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$312.00
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.
$520.00
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.
$78.00 with Univera vs $447.36 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $78.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $130.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $156.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $156.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $171.60 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $182.00 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $191.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $208.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $208.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $255.57 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $260.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $262.99 | ↓ -16% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $262.99 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $268.25 | ↓ -14% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $268.46 | ↓ -14% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $270.88 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $276.14 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $279.60 | ↓ -10% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $281.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $284.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $284.03 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $284.03 | ↓ -9% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $284.03 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $286.00 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $286.00 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $338.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $364.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $364.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $416.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $416.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $447.36 | ↑ +43% |
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Amplification real-time pcr dna markers infectious disease bacterial vaginosis and vaginitis at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $280.20 | $92.53 – $373.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $356.40 | $94.89 – $534.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $502.20 | $114.67 – $711.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $532.20 | $53.00 – $709.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $502.20 | $167.40 – $711.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $247.20 | $135.96 – $329.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $340.20 | $238.51 – $284.03 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $502.20 | $260.36 – $420.78 |