Cerebrospinal fld flw imag at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,068.00
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.
$1,780.00
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.
$149.71 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,424.00 with InterGroup — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $149.71 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $156.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $163.32 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $189.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $191.47 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $201.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $205.24 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $212.47 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $231.94 | ↓ -78% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $267.00 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $296.84 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $437.95 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $445.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $534.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $534.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $578.59 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $587.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $592.27 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $604.12 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $604.59 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $610.04 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $621.88 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $633.73 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $639.59 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $639.65 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $639.65 | ↓ -40% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $639.65 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $700.71 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | EBR | $712.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $712.00 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $749.45 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $809.01 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $925.73 | ↓ -13% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $933.20 | ↓ -13% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,157.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,246.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,246.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,424.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,424.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cerebrospinal fld flw imag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,475.40 | $139.70 – $2,070.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,475.40 | $139.70 – $2,070.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,475.40 | $139.70 – $822.74 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $628.20 | $149.71 – $1,121.51 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,475.40 | $139.70 – $827.18 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,097.40 | $149.71 – $554.23 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,475.40 | $139.70 – $1,132.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,608.00 | $149.71 – $564.50 |