Bone survey-lead poisoning 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

$680.40

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.

$1,134.00

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.

$51.63 with UPMC Health Plan vs $907.20 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 $51.63 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $52.54 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $53.98 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicaid $56.33 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $65.24 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $69.61 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $70.23 ↓ -90%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $70.79 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $73.28 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $80.00 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $93.43 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $99.64 ↓ -85%
Fidelis Medicare $117.01 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $119.35 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $119.44 ↓ -82%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $120.52 ↓ -82%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $122.86 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $125.20 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $126.36 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $126.37 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $126.37 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $126.37 ↓ -81%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $166.40 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $170.10 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $212.20 ↓ -69%
Independent Health Commercial $221.61 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial $283.50 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $339.52 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $340.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $340.20 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $374.22 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $453.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $453.60 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $515.40 ↓ -24%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $737.10 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $793.80 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $793.80 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $907.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $907.20 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Bone survey-lead poisoning at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $462.60 $36.58 – $693.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $262.80 $39.59 – $372.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $301.20 $49.29 – $401.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $262.80 $39.59 – $372.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $420.60 $51.63 – $106.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $262.80 $39.59 – $162.54
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $346.20 $51.63 – $136.62
UPMC Jameson New Castle $265.80 $34.75 – $126.72

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