Ciprofloxacin 400 mg/200 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback 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

$236.80

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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.

$296.00

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.

$1.26 with Independent Health vs $184.80 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.

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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
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $1.26 ↓ -99%
Independent Health Commercial $1.26 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.83 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.90 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2.90 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.90 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $3.71 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Commercial $5.25 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $5.94 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $25.43 ↓ -89%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $34.65 ↓ -85%
Aetna Commercial $57.75 ↓ -76%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $65.42 ↓ -72%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $69.30 ↓ -71%
Cigna New Business ASO $69.30 ↓ -71%
Univera Commercial $76.23 ↓ -68%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $80.85 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $85.01 ↓ -64%
Cigna EBR $92.40 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial $92.40 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $92.40 ↓ -61%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $115.50 ↓ -51%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $150.15 ↓ -37%
Aetna AXA/MMO $161.70 ↓ -32%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $161.70 ↓ -32%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $184.80 ↓ -22%
InterGroup Beech Street $184.80 ↓ -22%

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Ciprofloxacin 400 mg/200 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $37.00 $1.83 – $25.43
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.40 $1.83 – $84.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $5.40 $2.24 – $7.20
UPMC East Monroeville $152.80 $0.83 – $152.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $101.60 $1.83 – $66.00
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $83.20 $0.83 – $64.81
UPMC Jameson New Castle $43.40 $1.83 – $25.88
UPMC Kane Kane $15.00 $1.37 – $3.71

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