Budesonide non-comp con 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

$1,132.00

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.

$1,415.00

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.

$0.80 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $1,132.00 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.

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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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $0.80 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $0.92 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicaid $0.96 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $8.77 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $14.03 ↓ -99%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $212.25 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $233.76 ↓ -79%
Aetna Commercial $353.75 ↓ -69%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $400.73 ↓ -65%
Cigna New Business ASO $424.50 ↓ -63%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $424.50 ↓ -63%
Univera Commercial $466.95 ↓ -59%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $495.25 ↓ -56%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $520.72 ↓ -54%
Aetna Medicare $566.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna EBR $566.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $566.00 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Commercial $643.12 ↓ -43%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $707.50 ↓ -38%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $778.25 ↓ -31%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $778.25 ↓ -31%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $919.75 ↓ -19%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $990.50 ↓ -13%
Aetna AXA/MMO $990.50 ↓ -13%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,132.00 ↑ +0%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,132.00 ↑ +0%

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Budesonide non-comp con at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $29.60 $0.80 – $233.76
UPMC East Monroeville $1,396.00 $0.80 – $1,396.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $932.80 $0.84 – $606.70
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $338.40 $0.80 – $595.76
UPMC Jameson New Castle $338.40 $6.64 – $237.89
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $604.80 $0.88 – $235.99
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $752.00 $0.88 – $235.99
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $763.20 $0.84 – $235.99

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