Contrast x-ray of hip at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$913.20
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.
$1,522.00
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.
$123.52 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,217.60 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.
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 | $123.52 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $199.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $228.30 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $266.29 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $268.23 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $373.24 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $380.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $392.96 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $400.82 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $401.13 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $404.75 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $412.61 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $420.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $424.36 | ↓ -54% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $424.40 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $424.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $424.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $456.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $456.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $502.26 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $566.90 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $597.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $608.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $608.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $691.75 | ↓ -24% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $755.01 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $837.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $837.10 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $989.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,065.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,065.40 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast x-ray of hip at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $814.20 | $62.23 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $292.80 | $124.30 – $390.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $814.20 | $62.23 – $1,153.45 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $814.20 | $62.23 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $719.40 | $245.64 – $422.97 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $814.20 | $62.23 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,649.60 | $112.81 – $374.53 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $814.20 | $62.23 – $2,006.79 |