Chromo high res and frag x - sendout at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$3,739.80

Cash price

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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.

$6,233.00

Gross charge

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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.

$45.63 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $973.60 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $45.63 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $50.19 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $52.47 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicaid $54.76 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $56.38 ↓ -98%
Fidelis Medicare $57.04 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Commercial $57.04 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $58.18 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $58.23 ↓ -98%
Independent Health Commercial $58.75 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $58.75 ↓ -98%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $58.75 ↓ -98%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $59.89 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $61.03 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $61.60 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $61.60 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $61.60 ↓ -98%
Cigna Medicare $61.60 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $63.42 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $67.67 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $71.23 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $77.76 ↓ -98%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $120.23 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $153.35 ↓ -96%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $182.55 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $199.13 ↓ -95%
Aetna Commercial $304.25 ↓ -92%
Cigna New Business ASO $365.10 ↓ -90%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $365.10 ↓ -90%
Univera Commercial $401.61 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $463.39 ↓ -88%
Cigna Commercial $486.80 ↓ -87%
Cigna EBR $486.80 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $741.41 ↓ -80%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $791.05 ↓ -79%
Aetna AXA/MMO $851.90 ↓ -77%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $851.90 ↓ -77%
InterGroup Beech Street $973.60 ↓ -74%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $973.60 ↓ -74%

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Chromo high res and frag x - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $329.40 $43.94 – $466.65
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $329.40 $45.63 – $466.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $329.40 $43.94 – $91.26
UPMC Lititz Lititz $329.40 $43.94 – $91.26
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,007.40 $50.19 – $154.81
UPMC Memorial York $329.40 $43.94 – $282.61
UPMC Muncy Muncy $688.80 $50.19 – $77.76
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,067.40 $50.19 – $154.81

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