Cath imag ivus pv 8.5fx90 .035 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

$5,631.00

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.

$9,385.00

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.

$15.30 with Univera vs $2,918.91 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 $15.30 ↓ -100%
Aetna Commercial $25.50 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $30.60 ↓ -99%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $30.60 ↓ -99%
Univera Commercial $33.66 ↓ -99%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $35.70 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $37.54 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial $40.80 ↓ -99%
Cigna EBR $40.80 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare $40.80 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Commercial $46.36 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $51.00 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $56.10 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $56.10 ↓ -99%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $66.30 ↓ -99%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $71.40 ↓ -99%
Aetna AXA/MMO $71.40 ↓ -99%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $81.60 ↓ -99%
InterGroup Beech Street $81.60 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $603.74 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $971.20 ↓ -83%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $1,153.30 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,824.34 ↓ -68%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2,053.48 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,918.91 ↓ -48%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Cath imag ivus pv 8.5fx90 .035 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,126.40 $42.50 – $3,814.33
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $7,522.20 $690.60 – $3,814.33
UPMC East Monroeville $6,164.40 $14.50 – $3,814.33
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,281.20 $94.53 – $3,814.33
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $2,257.80 $94.53 – $3,814.33
UPMC Memorial York $7,522.20 $85.94 – $3,814.33
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3,611.40 $603.74 – $3,011.96
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,237.80 $16.20 – $97.20

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