Desoxycorticosterone 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

$505.80

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.

$843.00

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.

$30.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $674.40 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.

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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 $30.62 ↓ -94%
Fidelis Medicare $30.98 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $31.60 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $31.62 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $31.91 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $31.91 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Commercial $31.91 ↓ -94%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $32.53 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $33.15 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $33.46 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $33.46 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $33.46 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $33.46 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $42.44 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $42.58 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $42.81 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $47.09 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $49.23 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $51.37 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $59.50 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $63.49 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $66.83 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $72.96 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $84.20 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $118.79 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $126.45 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $210.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $252.90 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $252.90 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $254.44 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $278.19 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $337.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $337.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $407.10 ↓ -20%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $547.95 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $590.10 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $590.10 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $674.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $674.40 ↑ +33%

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Desoxycorticosterone at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $398.40 $30.62 – $531.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $67.20 $15.34 – $95.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $67.20 $22.40 – $237.89
UPMC Northwest Seneca $285.60 $28.10 – $49.23
UPMC Hanover Hanover $67.20 $30.67 – $58.31
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $253.80 $27.74 – $59.50
UPMC Jameson New Castle $100.20 $30.62 – $85.69
UPMC Kane Kane $274.80 $30.62 – $133.71

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