Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$24.80
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.
$31.00
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.
$4.65 with Univera vs $82.08 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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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $4.65 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.23 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $7.75 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.78 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $9.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $9.30 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $9.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Univera | Commercial | $10.23 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $10.85 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $12.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | EBR | $12.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $12.40 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $14.09 | ↓ -43% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $14.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $14.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $15.50 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $20.15 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $21.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $21.70 | ↓ -13% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $24.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $24.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $33.03 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $37.98 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $39.63 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $44.13 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $51.30 | ↑ +107% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $82.08 | ↑ +231% |
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Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $188.80 | $6.23 – $188.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $347.20 | $6.23 – $390.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $82.80 | $3.15 – $33.03 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $163.20 | $9.86 – $69.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $82.80 | $4.60 – $73.48 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $264.00 | $6.23 – $264.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $227.20 | $6.23 – $114.53 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $82.80 | $9.86 – $33.03 |