Fetal fibronectin 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

$245.40

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.

$409.00

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.

$20.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $327.20 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $20.00 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $23.00 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicaid $24.00 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $27.80 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $31.22 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $38.53 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $60.15 ↓ -75%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $61.35 ↓ -75%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $63.66 ↓ -74%
Fidelis Medicare $64.41 ↓ -74%
Aetna Medicare $65.70 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $65.75 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $66.34 ↓ -73%
Independent Health Commercial $66.34 ↓ -73%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $66.34 ↓ -73%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $67.63 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare $68.92 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $69.56 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $69.56 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $69.56 ↓ -72%
Cigna Medicare $69.56 ↓ -72%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $88.25 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Commercial $88.54 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $102.25 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $116.44 ↓ -53%
Cigna New Business ASO $122.70 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $122.70 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $134.97 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $163.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $163.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $186.30 ↓ -24%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $265.85 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $286.30 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $286.30 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $327.20 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $327.20 ↑ +33%

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Fetal fibronectin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $461.40 $20.00 – $615.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $326.40 $20.00 – $462.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $294.00 $21.00 – $392.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $326.40 $20.00 – $462.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $326.40 $20.00 – $103.06
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $276.00 $20.00 – $69.56
UPMC Kane Kane $111.60 $22.00 – $277.99
UPMC Lititz Lititz $326.40 $20.00 – $103.06

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