Egd remove lesion snare 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

$3,124.80

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.

$5,208.00

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.

$208.28 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,166.40 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.

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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 $208.28 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $217.75 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicaid $227.22 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $263.18 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $280.81 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $285.54 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $295.59 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $322.69 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $729.80 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $781.20 ↓ -75%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,134.32 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $1,302.00 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,535.00 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,562.40 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,562.40 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $1,718.64 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $2,083.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,083.20 ↓ -33%
Fidelis Medicare $2,087.30 ↓ -33%
Aetna Medicare $2,129.05 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $2,130.72 ↓ -32%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $2,149.92 ↓ -31%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $2,177.52 ↓ -30%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $2,191.66 ↓ -30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $2,205.27 ↓ -29%
United Healthcare Medicare $2,233.41 ↓ -29%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $2,254.08 ↓ -28%
Cigna Medicare $2,254.28 ↓ -28%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $2,254.28 ↓ -28%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $2,254.28 ↓ -28%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $2,630.42 ↓ -16%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,876.15 ↓ -8%
Independent Health Commercial $2,980.02 ↓ -5%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $3,385.20 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $3,528.40 ↑ +13%
Aetna AXA/MMO $3,645.60 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $3,645.60 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $4,166.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $4,166.40 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Egd remove lesion snare at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,675.80 $189.35 – $2,234.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $4,521.60 $198.82 – $6,782.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $642.60 $198.82 – $1,072.14
UPMC East Monroeville $3,055.20 $208.28 – $4,073.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,132.40 $208.28 – $1,898.98
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,476.20 $208.28 – $1,953.23
UPMC Jameson New Castle $2,476.20 $208.28 – $2,441.54
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $4,464.60 $208.28 – $1,953.23

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