Bivalirudin 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

$5,733.00

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.

$9,555.00

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.

$0.11 with UPMC Health Plan vs $29.60 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 $0.11 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.17 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.17 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.17 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $0.34 ↓ -100%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $0.40 ↓ -100%
Independent Health Commercial $0.40 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $0.54 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Commercial $0.58 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $3.23 ↓ -100%
Fidelis Child Health Plus/Family Health Plus/Medicaid $3.24 ↓ -100%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $5.55 ↓ -100%
Fidelis Essential Plan $7.29 ↓ -100%
Molina Healthcare of NY CHIP (For Kids)/Essential Plan/Medicaid $7.29 ↓ -100%
Aetna Commercial $9.25 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.48 ↓ -100%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $11.10 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $11.10 ↓ -100%
Univera Commercial $12.21 ↓ -100%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $12.95 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $13.62 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $14.80 ↓ -100%
Cigna EBR $14.80 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $14.80 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.50 ↓ -100%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $24.05 ↓ -100%
Aetna AXA/MMO $25.90 ↓ -100%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $25.90 ↓ -100%
InterGroup Beech Street $29.60 ↓ -99%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $29.60 ↓ -99%

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Bivalirudin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $3,109.20 $0.11 – $16.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $585.00 $0.17 – $51.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $181.80 $0.17 – $242.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $585.00 $0.17 – $51.00
UPMC East Monroeville $3,416.40 $0.11 – $17.60
UPMC Hanover Hanover $585.00 $0.17 – $0.30
UPMC Lititz Lititz $585.00 $0.17 – $0.30
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $5,170.80 $0.11 – $3.27

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