Culture fungi definitive id yeast 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

$62.40

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.

$104.00

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.

$9.70 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $135.70 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 $9.70 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $10.20 ↓ -84%
Fidelis Medicare $10.32 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $10.53 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $10.53 ↓ -83%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $10.63 ↓ -83%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $10.63 ↓ -83%
Independent Health Commercial $10.63 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.67 ↓ -83%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $10.84 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $11.04 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $11.14 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.15 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $11.15 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $11.15 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $11.15 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicaid $11.64 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.48 ↓ -78%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $14.14 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Commercial $14.19 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.39 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.14 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $15.60 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $16.53 ↓ -74%
Aetna Commercial $26.00 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $28.07 ↓ -55%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $31.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $31.20 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $34.32 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $41.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $41.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $43.71 ↓ -30%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $67.60 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $72.80 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $72.80 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $83.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $83.20 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $84.81 ↑ +36%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $135.70 ↑ +117%

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Culture fungi definitive id yeast at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $171.00 $9.70 – $228.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $83.40 $3.72 – $125.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $57.00 $9.70 – $80.75
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $57.00 $9.70 – $87.53
UPMC East Monroeville $216.00 $9.70 – $288.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $67.20 $9.36 – $11.15
UPMC Hanover Hanover $57.00 $9.70 – $16.51
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $80.40 $9.24 – $19.37

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