Change cystostomy tube; complex 51710 at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$3,037.80
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.
$5,063.00
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.
$30.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,050.40 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $30.80 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $32.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $33.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.92 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $41.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $42.22 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $43.71 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $47.72 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $164.04 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $545.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $734.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $749.12 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $749.71 | ↓ -75% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $756.46 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $759.45 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $771.15 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $785.84 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $793.11 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $793.18 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $793.18 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $793.18 | ↓ -74% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $925.53 | ↓ -70% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $1,070.01 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,147.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,265.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,518.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,518.90 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,646.96 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,670.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,025.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,025.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,128.19 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,635.11 | ↓ -13% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $3,290.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,544.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $3,544.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $4,050.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $4,050.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,378.00 | $28.00 – $4,504.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $171.60 | $29.40 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,854.80 | $30.80 – $3,806.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,396.00 | $30.80 – $668.17 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,706.00 | $30.80 – $1,060.34 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,152.60 | $30.80 – $567.90 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,236.80 | $30.80 – $687.26 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,685.00 | $30.80 – $699.99 |