Apply hand/wrist cast 29085 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

$825.00

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.

$1,375.00

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.

$30.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,100.00 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 Health Plan Managed Medicaid $30.25 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $31.62 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $33.00 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $38.22 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $40.78 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $41.47 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $42.93 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $46.87 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $107.76 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $130.12 ↓ -84%
Fidelis Medicare $173.62 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare $177.09 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $177.23 ↓ -79%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $178.83 ↓ -78%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $182.30 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Medicare $185.77 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $187.49 ↓ -77%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $187.51 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $187.51 ↓ -77%
Cigna Medicare $187.51 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $206.25 ↓ -75%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $218.80 ↓ -73%
Independent Health Commercial $249.42 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Commercial $340.00 ↓ -59%
Aetna Commercial $343.75 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $393.18 ↓ -52%
Cigna New Business ASO $412.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $412.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $453.75 ↓ -45%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $494.99 ↓ -40%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $519.85 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $550.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $550.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $629.08 ↓ -24%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $893.75 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $962.50 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $962.50 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,100.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,100.00 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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