Fetal non stress test 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

$846.00

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.

$1,410.00

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.

$19.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,128.00 with Multiplan — 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 $19.25 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $20.12 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicaid $21.00 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $24.32 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.95 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $26.39 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.32 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $29.82 ↓ -96%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $103.53 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $105.76 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $130.12 ↓ -85%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $211.50 ↓ -75%
Fidelis Medicare $221.35 ↓ -74%
Aetna Medicare $225.78 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $225.95 ↓ -73%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $227.99 ↓ -73%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $232.42 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $236.84 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $239.04 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $239.06 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $239.06 ↓ -72%
Cigna Medicare $239.06 ↓ -72%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $246.53 ↓ -71%
Independent Health Commercial $328.31 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial $352.50 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $393.18 ↓ -54%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $423.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $423.00 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $465.30 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $521.72 ↓ -38%
Cigna Commercial $564.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $564.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $629.08 ↓ -26%
United Healthcare Commercial $640.85 ↓ -24%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $916.50 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $987.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $987.00 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,128.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,128.00 ↑ +33%

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Fetal non stress test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $307.20 $4.72 – $409.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $356.40 $18.38 – $534.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $752.40 $6.18 – $1,065.90
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $752.40 $6.18 – $3,000.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $266.40 $19.25 – $201.38
UPMC Hanover Hanover $752.40 $6.18 – $307.49
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $761.40 $19.25 – $315.58
UPMC Lititz Lititz $752.40 $6.18 – $309.15

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