Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$661.80
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.
$1,103.00
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.
$13.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $882.40 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $13.00 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $13.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $14.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $16.43 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $17.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $17.82 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $18.45 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $20.14 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.87 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $41.82 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $46.58 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $49.78 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $90.26 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $144.42 | ↓ -78% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $165.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $223.79 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $228.27 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $228.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $230.50 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $234.98 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $239.46 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $241.67 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $241.69 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $241.69 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $241.69 | ↓ -63% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $273.12 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $275.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $330.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $330.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $363.73 | ↓ -45% |
| Univera | Commercial | $363.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $441.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $441.20 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $501.31 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $716.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $772.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $772.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $882.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $882.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $98.40 | $11.82 – $131.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $75.00 | $12.41 – $112.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $76.80 | $12.41 – $102.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $155.40 | $13.00 – $207.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $84.60 | $13.00 – $203.61 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $325.80 | $15.01 – $310.88 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $158.40 | $13.00 – $209.42 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $158.40 | $13.00 – $242.39 |