Biopsy, bone open deep at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$4,663.20
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.
$7,772.00
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.
$248.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,217.60 with InterGroup — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $248.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $259.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $270.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $313.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $334.42 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $340.05 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $352.03 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $384.30 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $836.96 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,059.32 | ↓ -77% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,165.80 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,754.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,943.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,331.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,331.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,529.08 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,564.76 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $2,794.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,108.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,108.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,149.17 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,212.15 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,214.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,243.65 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,274.74 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $3,306.63 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,369.61 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,400.79 | ↓ -27% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,401.10 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,401.10 | ↓ -27% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,401.10 | ↓ -27% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $3,968.58 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,046.49 | ↓ -13% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $4,420.18 | ↓ -5% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $5,051.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $5,440.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5,440.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $6,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $6,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $5,397.60 | $225.50 – $7,196.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $8,070.00 | $286.38 – $11,432.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,188.60 | $236.78 – $1,533.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $8,070.00 | $286.38 – $4,374.59 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,961.20 | $248.05 – $2,946.91 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,819.60 | $248.05 – $3,001.48 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,321.20 | $248.05 – $3,001.48 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $304.43 – $5,805.45 |