Cath stripping venous s&i at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$246.00
Cash price 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.
$410.00
Gross charge 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.
$61.50 with Univera vs $476.39 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $61.50 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $68.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $98.53 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $102.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $123.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $123.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $135.30 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $164.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $164.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $164.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $171.30 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $186.34 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $205.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $225.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $225.50 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $266.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $287.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $287.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $297.75 | ↑ +21% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $328.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $328.00 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $460.44 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $476.39 | ↑ +94% |
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Cath stripping venous s&i at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,564.20 | $136.81 – $2,215.95 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,564.20 | $136.81 – $2,215.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $424.20 | $64.14 – $565.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,564.20 | $136.81 – $179.27 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,564.20 | $136.81 – $208.48 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $602.40 | $99.47 – $229.33 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $416.40 | $62.33 – $229.33 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,564.20 | $80.31 – $931.30 |