Dexa bone density study >=1 sites appendicular skeleton (peripheral) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$121.20
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.
$202.00
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.
$23.98 with BCBS of Western NY vs $235.18 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $23.98 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $30.23 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $30.30 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $31.60 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $32.98 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $40.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $41.44 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -65% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $46.83 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $48.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $50.50 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $58.59 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $60.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $60.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $66.66 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $69.85 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $80.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $80.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $80.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $91.81 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $101.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $118.50 | ↓ -2% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $131.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $141.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $141.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $146.99 | ↑ +21% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $157.79 | ↑ +30% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $161.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $161.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $235.18 | ↑ +94% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Dexa bone density study >=1 sites appendicular skeleton (peripheral) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $188.40 | $23.16 – $266.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $104.40 | $28.85 – $139.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $188.40 | $23.16 – $266.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $121.20 | $30.23 – $88.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $188.40 | $23.16 – $134.58 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $121.20 | $28.85 – $94.64 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $139.80 | $30.23 – $88.65 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $188.40 | $23.16 – $135.31 |