Cell marker study at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$265.80
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.
$443.00
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.
$38.10 with United Healthcare vs $354.40 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $38.10 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $41.31 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $45.44 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $47.51 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $49.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $49.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $57.42 | ↓ -78% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $58.79 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $59.97 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $60.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $60.55 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $61.26 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $61.73 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $62.91 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $63.49 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $63.49 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $63.49 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $63.49 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $64.49 | ↓ -76% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $66.45 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $70.40 | ↓ -74% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $73.45 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $73.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $97.81 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $110.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $132.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $132.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $146.19 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $148.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | EBR | $177.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $177.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $181.70 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $185.14 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $238.24 | ↓ -10% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $287.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $310.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $310.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $354.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $354.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cell marker study at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $116.40 | $9.00 – $195.83 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $255.60 | $43.38 – $340.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $116.40 | $9.00 – $164.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $381.60 | $40.62 – $508.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $126.60 | $41.00 – $146.53 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $116.40 | $9.00 – $153.34 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $144.60 | $41.13 – $146.53 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $126.60 | $7.90 – $146.53 |