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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$2,752.20
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.
$4,587.00
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.
$82.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,669.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $82.50 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $86.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $90.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $104.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $111.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $113.10 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $117.08 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $127.81 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $334.87 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $545.04 | ↓ -80% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $688.05 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $734.43 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $749.12 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $749.71 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $756.46 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $771.15 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $785.84 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $793.11 | ↓ -71% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $793.18 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $793.18 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $793.18 | ↓ -71% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $925.53 | ↓ -66% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $1,070.01 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,146.75 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,147.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,376.10 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,376.10 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,513.71 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,646.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,834.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,834.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,129.44 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,635.11 | ↓ -4% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $2,981.55 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $3,210.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,210.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $3,669.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $3,669.60 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,580.60 | $82.50 – $3,655.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,213.40 | $82.50 – $2,951.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,572.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $400.80 | $78.75 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $1,715.17 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,632.62 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,731.00 | $82.50 – $2,308.00 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,572.10 |