Colonoscopy stoma w/snare 44394 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

$3,193.20

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.

$5,322.00

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.

$545.04 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,257.60 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $545.04 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $798.30 ↓ -75%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,175.96 ↓ -63%
Fidelis Medicare $1,297.37 ↓ -59%
Aetna Medicare $1,323.32 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $1,324.36 ↓ -59%
Aetna Commercial $1,330.50 ↓ -58%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $1,336.29 ↓ -58%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $1,362.24 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,388.19 ↓ -57%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,401.03 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,401.16 ↓ -56%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,401.16 ↓ -56%
Cigna Medicare $1,401.16 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,535.00 ↓ -52%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $1,572.66 ↓ -51%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,596.60 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,596.60 ↓ -50%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $1,634.95 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,646.96 ↓ -48%
Univera Commercial $1,756.26 ↓ -45%
Independent Health Commercial $1,852.97 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,127.57 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $2,128.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,128.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,635.11 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2,927.10 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2,927.10 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $3,459.30 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $3,725.40 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $3,725.40 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $4,257.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $4,257.60 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Colonoscopy stoma w/snare 44394 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $3,378.00 $545.04 – $4,504.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $3,576.60 $405.58 – $5,364.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $722.40 $333.75 – $1,144.47
UPMC East Monroeville $2,420.40 $550.23 – $3,227.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $3,373.80 $809.52 – $1,214.04
UPMC Jameson New Castle $1,798.20 $554.65 – $1,517.55
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $4,047.00 $550.23 – $1,236.52
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,449.80 $444.00 – $1,236.52

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