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Chest X-ray at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$532.80
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.
$888.00
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.
$11.78 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $710.40 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 |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.78 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $22.92 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $26.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $27.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $28.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $32.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $35.06 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $35.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $35.65 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $36.90 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.75 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $40.29 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $56.98 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $67.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $96.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $98.82 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $98.90 | ↓ -81% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $99.79 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $101.72 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $103.66 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $104.62 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $104.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $104.63 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $104.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $118.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $133.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $157.79 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $222.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $266.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $266.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $293.04 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $355.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $355.20 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $403.60 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $577.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $621.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $621.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $710.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $710.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Chest X-ray at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $419.40 | $11.90 – $594.15 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $172.80 | $11.78 – $230.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $115.80 | $24.82 – $173.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $150.60 | $24.82 – $200.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $436.20 | $11.90 – $581.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $188.40 | $7.41 – $134.58 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $426.00 | $22.93 – $603.50 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $215.40 | $11.99 – $315.92 |