Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$717.00
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.
$1,195.00
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.
$23.43 with United Healthcare vs $956.00 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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| United Healthcare | Commercial | $23.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $32.50 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $35.75 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $37.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $39.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $39.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $45.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $48.20 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $50.74 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $51.03 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $55.39 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $118.57 | ↓ -83% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $179.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $188.55 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $189.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $192.32 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $192.47 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $194.21 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $197.98 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $201.75 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $203.62 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $203.63 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $203.63 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $203.63 | ↓ -72% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $213.04 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $213.56 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $214.17 | ↓ -70% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $283.73 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $298.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $358.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $358.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $394.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $478.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $478.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $776.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $836.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $836.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $956.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $956.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $229.80 | $7.50 – $306.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $133.20 | $28.50 – $199.91 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $337.20 | $9.82 – $477.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $104.40 | $34.12 – $199.91 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $337.20 | $9.82 – $211.89 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $303.00 | $28.11 – $404.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $159.60 | $28.38 – $202.47 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $337.20 | $9.82 – $261.92 |