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Chest CT scan (with contrast) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$3,283.80
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.
$5,473.00
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.
$134.85 with BCBS of Western NY vs $4,378.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $134.85 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $159.66 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $166.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $174.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $195.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $199.80 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $199.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $201.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $201.76 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $205.67 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $209.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $211.53 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $211.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $211.55 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $211.55 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $215.26 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $218.89 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $226.59 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $247.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $270.53 | ↓ -92% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $360.29 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $377.24 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $590.85 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $693.00 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $818.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $820.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,139.93 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,368.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,641.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,641.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,806.09 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,823.87 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,189.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,189.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $3,557.45 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $3,831.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,831.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $4,378.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $4,378.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Chest CT scan (with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,917.20 | $159.66 – $3,889.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,654.40 | $157.72 – $3,760.40 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,121.60 | $151.95 – $3,005.60 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,836.20 | $157.31 – $4,017.95 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,424.40 | $114.62 – $2,017.90 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,413.60 | $87.50 – $1,884.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $957.60 | $61.23 – $1,436.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,725.00 | $152.41 – $2,300.00 |