Antistreptolysin o screen at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$70.80

Cash price

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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.

$118.00

Gross charge

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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.

$5.70 with UPMC Work Partners vs $94.40 with Multiplan — 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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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.70 ↓ -92%
Fidelis Medicare $5.77 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $5.89 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $5.89 ↓ -92%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $5.94 ↓ -92%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $5.94 ↓ -92%
Independent Health Commercial $5.94 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $6.06 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.17 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.23 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.23 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.23 ↓ -91%
Cigna Medicare $6.23 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $7.00 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.70 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $7.91 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Commercial $7.93 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $8.05 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicaid $8.40 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.73 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.38 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.93 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $11.17 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.93 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $17.70 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.36 ↓ -71%
Aetna Commercial $29.50 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $33.76 ↓ -52%
Cigna New Business ASO $35.40 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $35.40 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $38.94 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $47.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $47.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $54.01 ↓ -24%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $76.70 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $82.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $82.60 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $94.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $94.40 ↑ +33%

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Antistreptolysin o screen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $106.20 $5.70 – $141.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $60.00 $2.08 – $90.00
UPMC East Monroeville $85.80 $5.70 – $114.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $37.20 $5.23 – $8.05
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $66.00 $5.17 – $10.83
UPMC Jameson New Castle $30.60 $5.70 – $11.37
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $46.80 $5.40 – $11.93
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $44.40 $5.35 – $11.28

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