Cacna1a gen detc abnor allel 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

$923.40

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.

$1,539.00

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.

$83.66 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,231.20 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $83.66 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $135.40 ↓ -85%
Fidelis Medicare $137.00 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Commercial $137.00 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $139.74 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $139.85 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $141.11 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Commercial $141.11 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $141.11 ↓ -85%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $143.85 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $146.59 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $147.95 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $147.96 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $147.96 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $147.96 ↓ -84%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $230.85 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $252.81 ↓ -73%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $288.76 ↓ -69%
Aetna Commercial $384.75 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $404.50 ↓ -56%
Cigna New Business ASO $461.70 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $461.70 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $507.87 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $566.35 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial $615.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $615.60 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $846.45 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $846.45 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,000.35 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,077.30 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,077.30 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,231.20 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,231.20 ↑ +33%

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Cacna1a gen detc abnor allel at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $874.80 $83.66 – $1,166.40
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,408.40 $84.46 – $150.70
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $963.60 $84.46 – $157.44
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $909.00 $84.46 – $157.44
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $874.80 $106.97 – $149.57

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