Cardiolipin antibody iga 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

$177.60

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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.

$296.00

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.

$25.16 with UPMC Work Partners vs $243.00 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $25.16 ↓ -86%
Fidelis Medicare $25.45 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $25.96 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $25.98 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $26.21 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $26.21 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Commercial $26.21 ↓ -85%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $26.72 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $27.23 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $27.48 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $27.49 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $27.49 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $27.49 ↓ -85%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $34.86 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Commercial $34.97 ↓ -80%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $35.16 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $38.68 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $40.43 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicaid $42.19 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $44.40 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $48.87 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $50.26 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $52.14 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $54.89 ↓ -69%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $59.92 ↓ -66%
Aetna Commercial $74.00 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $76.57 ↓ -57%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $88.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $88.80 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $97.68 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $118.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $118.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $151.88 ↓ -14%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $192.40 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $207.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $207.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $236.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $236.80 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $243.00 ↑ +37%

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Cardiolipin antibody iga at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $136.80 $25.16 – $182.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $125.40 $9.18 – $188.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $142.20 $25.20 – $177.65
UPMC Cole Coudersport $345.00 $16.54 – $460.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $146.40 $25.20 – $177.65
UPMC East Monroeville $388.20 $25.16 – $488.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $129.60 $23.08 – $40.43
UPMC Hanover Hanover $142.20 $25.20 – $47.89

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