Cdna analysis for variants at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$4,339.20

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.

$7,232.00

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.

$58.95 with Univera vs $2,216.86 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 $58.95 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial $98.25 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $117.90 ↓ -97%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $117.90 ↓ -97%
Univera Commercial $129.69 ↓ -97%
Cigna EBR $157.20 ↓ -96%
Cigna Commercial $157.20 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $183.04 ↓ -96%
Fidelis Medicare $185.20 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Commercial $185.20 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare $188.90 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $189.05 ↓ -96%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $190.76 ↓ -96%
Independent Health Commercial $190.76 ↓ -96%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $190.76 ↓ -96%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $194.46 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare $198.16 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $200.00 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $200.02 ↓ -95%
Cigna Medicare $200.02 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $200.02 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $216.15 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $216.15 ↓ -95%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $255.45 ↓ -94%
Aetna AXA/MMO $275.10 ↓ -94%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $275.10 ↓ -94%
InterGroup Beech Street $314.40 ↓ -93%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $314.40 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $390.34 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $458.53 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $488.39 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,385.55 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,216.86 ↓ -49%

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Cdna analysis for variants at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,277.60 $183.04 – $736.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $2,343.60 $66.82 – $1,841.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,070.40 $101.86 – $1,516.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,117.20 $53.00 – $1,489.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,070.40 $147.99 – $1,516.40
UPMC East Monroeville $1,916.40 $183.04 – $814.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,070.40 $147.99 – $978.04
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,882.40 $165.81 – $347.53

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