Biliary endo perq dx w/speci at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$4,193.40
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.
$6,989.00
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.
$729.80 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $8,652.18 with Independent Health — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $729.80 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $731.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,048.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,747.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,096.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,096.70 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $2,177.52 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,205.27 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,306.37 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,608.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,795.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,795.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,854.39 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,528.40 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,843.95 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,843.95 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $4,542.85 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $4,892.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,892.30 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $5,591.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $5,591.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $6,060.59 | ↑ +45% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $6,865.72 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $7,003.03 | ↑ +67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $7,008.53 | ↑ +67% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $7,071.69 | ↑ +69% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $7,209.01 | ↑ +72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $7,346.32 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $7,414.29 | ↑ +77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $7,414.98 | ↑ +77% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $7,414.98 | ↑ +77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $7,414.98 | ↑ +77% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $8,652.18 | ↑ +106% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Biliary endo perq dx w/speci at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $9,768.60 | $294.75 – $13,838.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $9,768.60 | $294.75 – $13,838.85 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $9,768.60 | $294.75 – $9,537.33 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $9,768.60 | $294.75 – $9,588.85 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $9,768.60 | $294.75 – $9,573.28 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,037.40 | $596.00 – $6,543.73 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9,768.60 | $258.75 – $6,424.16 |