Fetal hemoglobin (kleihauer betke) 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

$114.60

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.

$191.00

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.

$7.64 with UPMC Work Partners vs $152.80 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 Work Partners Workers Comp $7.64 ↓ -93%
Fidelis Medicare $7.73 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $7.88 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $7.89 ↓ -93%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $7.96 ↓ -93%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $7.96 ↓ -93%
Independent Health Commercial $7.96 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $8.12 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.27 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.35 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.35 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.35 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $8.35 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $10.59 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Commercial $10.64 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.69 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $11.76 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $12.29 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicaid $12.83 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $14.86 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $15.85 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.69 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $18.22 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $21.04 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $26.57 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $28.65 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $47.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $57.30 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $57.30 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $63.03 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $63.58 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $76.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $76.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $101.73 ↓ -11%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $124.15 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $133.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $133.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $152.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $152.80 ↑ +33%

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Fetal hemoglobin (kleihauer betke) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $356.40 $7.64 – $475.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.20 $2.79 – $87.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $40.20 $7.65 – $56.95
UPMC Cole Coudersport $77.40 $5.02 – $103.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $40.20 $7.65 – $56.95
UPMC Northwest Seneca $121.20 $7.01 – $12.29
UPMC Hanover Hanover $40.20 $7.65 – $14.56
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $240.00 $6.92 – $14.86

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