Cv line/pic reposition 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

$1,029.00

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.

$1,715.00

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.

$63.95 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,545.85 with Independent Health — 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 Health Plan Managed Medicaid $63.95 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $66.86 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicaid $69.77 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $80.81 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $86.22 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $87.68 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $90.76 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $99.08 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $244.64 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $257.25 ↓ -75%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $299.09 ↓ -71%
Aetna Commercial $428.75 ↓ -58%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $494.99 ↓ -52%
Cigna New Business ASO $514.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $514.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $565.95 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $686.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $686.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $739.23 ↓ -28%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,114.75 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,147.00 ↑ +11%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,182.75 ↑ +15%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,200.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,200.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,372.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,372.00 ↑ +33%
Fidelis Medicare $1,709.28 ↑ +66%
Aetna Medicare $1,743.47 ↑ +69%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $1,744.83 ↑ +70%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $1,760.56 ↑ +71%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $1,794.74 ↑ +74%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,828.93 ↑ +78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,845.85 ↑ +79%
Cigna Medicare $1,846.02 ↑ +79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,846.02 ↑ +79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,846.02 ↑ +79%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,873.86 ↑ +82%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $2,154.03 ↑ +109%
Independent Health Commercial $2,545.85 ↑ +147%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Cv line/pic reposition at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $915.60 $58.14 – $1,220.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,472.00 $73.84 – $3,502.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2,472.00 $73.84 – $3,502.00
UPMC East Monroeville $975.60 $63.95 – $1,555.07
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,591.20 $63.95 – $1,555.07
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2,472.00 $73.84 – $2,374.40
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,515.00 $63.95 – $1,599.50
UPMC Jameson New Castle $1,065.60 $63.95 – $1,999.38

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