Apply rigid leg cast 29445 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

$1,155.60

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.

$1,926.00

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.

$111.62 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,540.80 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 $111.62 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $116.69 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $121.76 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $141.03 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $150.48 ↓ -87%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $153.02 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $158.40 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $172.93 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $256.29 ↓ -78%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $288.90 ↓ -75%
Fidelis Medicare $292.22 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $298.06 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $298.30 ↓ -74%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $300.99 ↓ -74%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $306.83 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $312.68 ↓ -73%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $315.57 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $315.60 ↓ -73%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $315.60 ↓ -73%
Cigna Medicare $315.60 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Commercial $340.00 ↓ -71%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $368.26 ↓ -68%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $388.34 ↓ -66%
Independent Health Commercial $410.51 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $481.50 ↓ -58%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $494.99 ↓ -57%
Cigna New Business ASO $577.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $577.80 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $635.58 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $669.12 ↓ -42%
Cigna Commercial $770.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $770.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $774.44 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,239.10 ↑ +7%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,251.90 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,348.20 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,348.20 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,540.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,540.80 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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