Cath right heart w/o2 sat & card 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

$2,176.20

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.

$3,627.00

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.

$544.05 with Univera vs $5,610.03 with BCBS of Western NY — 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 $544.05 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $906.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,088.10 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,088.10 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1,095.37 ↓ -50%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,126.58 ↓ -48%
Univera Commercial $1,196.91 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $1,450.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $1,450.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,531.56 ↓ -30%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1,994.85 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,994.85 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $2,357.55 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $2,538.90 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $2,538.90 ↑ +17%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,815.00 ↑ +29%
InterGroup Beech Street $2,901.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $2,901.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $3,309.92 ↑ +52%
Fidelis Medicare $3,539.08 ↑ +63%
Aetna Medicare $3,609.86 ↑ +66%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $3,612.69 ↑ +66%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $3,645.25 ↑ +68%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $3,716.03 ↑ +71%
United Healthcare Medicare $3,786.82 ↑ +74%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $3,821.85 ↑ +76%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3,822.21 ↑ +76%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $3,822.21 ↑ +76%
Cigna Medicare $3,822.21 ↑ +76%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $4,459.95 ↑ +105%
Independent Health Commercial $5,062.22 ↑ +133%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $5,295.83 ↑ +143%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $5,610.03 ↑ +158%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $5,586.00 $1,095.37 – $7,448.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $4,762.80 $1,016.56 – $6,747.30
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