Culture fungi skin/hair/nail 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

$87.60

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.

$146.00

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.

$7.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $116.80 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.62 ↓ -91%
Fidelis Medicare $7.71 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $7.86 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $7.87 ↓ -91%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $7.94 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $7.94 ↓ -91%
Independent Health Commercial $7.94 ↓ -91%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $8.10 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.25 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.33 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.33 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.33 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $8.33 ↓ -90%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.70 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $10.57 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $10.60 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.67 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $11.15 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicaid $11.64 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.48 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.39 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.14 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $16.53 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $20.95 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $21.90 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $25.22 ↓ -71%
Aetna Commercial $36.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $43.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $43.80 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $48.18 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $58.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $58.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $63.30 ↓ -28%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $94.90 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $101.28 ↑ +16%
Aetna AXA/MMO $102.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $102.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $116.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $116.80 ↑ +33%

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Culture fungi skin/hair/nail at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $108.00 $7.62 – $144.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $66.60 $2.78 – $99.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $43.20 $7.63 – $61.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $77.40 $5.01 – $103.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $43.20 $7.63 – $61.20
UPMC East Monroeville $129.60 $7.62 – $172.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $6.99 – $11.15
UPMC Hanover Hanover $43.20 $7.63 – $13.21

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