Bra surgical elizabeth pink sm 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

$104.40

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.

$174.00

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.

$13.80 with Univera vs $227.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $13.80 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.72 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $17.48 ↓ -83%
Aetna Commercial $23.00 ↓ -78%
Cigna New Business ASO $27.60 ↓ -74%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $27.60 ↓ -74%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $30.36 ↓ -71%
Univera Commercial $30.36 ↓ -71%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $32.20 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $33.86 ↓ -68%
Aetna Medicare $36.80 ↓ -65%
Cigna EBR $36.80 ↓ -65%
Cigna Commercial $36.80 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Commercial $41.81 ↓ -60%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $46.00 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $47.12 ↓ -55%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $50.60 ↓ -52%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $59.80 ↓ -43%
Aetna AXA/MMO $64.40 ↓ -38%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $64.40 ↓ -38%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $67.28 ↓ -36%
InterGroup Beech Street $73.60 ↓ -30%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $73.60 ↓ -30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $142.39 ↑ +36%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $227.82 ↑ +118%

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Bra surgical elizabeth pink sm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $172.20 $47.12 – $229.60
UPMC East Monroeville $74.40 $23.56 – $175.45
UPMC Northwest Seneca $55.20 $67.28 – $212.31
UPMC Jameson New Castle $55.20 $21.49 – $175.45
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UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $55.20 $47.12 – $138.54
UPMC Muncy Muncy $148.80 $35.84 – $71.97
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $55.20 $47.57 – $254.60

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