Bone biopsy open superficial at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$4,461.00
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.
$7,435.00
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.
$104.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,948.00 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 | $104.50 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $109.25 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $114.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $132.04 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $140.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $143.26 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $148.30 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $161.90 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $493.39 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $729.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,115.25 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,754.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,858.75 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $2,177.52 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,205.27 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,230.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,230.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,453.55 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,853.21 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,974.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,974.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,149.17 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,212.15 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,214.67 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,243.65 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $3,306.63 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,369.61 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,400.79 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,401.10 | ↓ -24% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,401.10 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,401.10 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,528.40 | ↓ -21% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $3,968.58 | ↓ -11% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $4,420.18 | ↓ -1% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $4,832.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5,204.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $5,204.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $5,948.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $5,948.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bone biopsy open superficial at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,980.80 | $120.65 – $8,472.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $515.40 | $99.75 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,980.80 | $120.65 – $4,374.59 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,980.80 | $120.65 – $4,398.21 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,453.60 | $104.50 – $2,946.91 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,396.40 | $104.50 – $3,001.48 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $5,752.80 | $104.50 – $1,077.76 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,317.50 | $104.50 – $5,847.63 |