Fresh frozen plasma 8-24 hours collection each unit at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$247.80
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.
$413.00
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.
$33.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $443.95 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $33.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $34.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $36.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $41.70 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.49 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $45.24 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $46.83 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $51.13 | ↓ -79% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $61.95 | ↓ -75% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $70.91 | ↓ -71% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $70.91 | ↓ -71% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $78.22 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $79.78 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $79.85 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $80.57 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $82.13 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $83.70 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $84.47 | ↓ -66% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $84.48 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $84.48 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $84.48 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $91.82 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $103.25 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $104.12 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $123.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $123.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $136.29 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $151.98 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $165.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $165.20 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $187.71 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $268.45 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $277.47 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $289.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $289.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $330.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $330.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $443.95 | ↑ +79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Fresh frozen plasma 8-24 hours collection each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $197.40 | $30.00 – $263.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $658.20 | $24.46 – $987.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $602.40 | $33.00 – $71.17 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $76.20 | $33.00 – $93.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $243.00 | $33.00 – $51.13 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $399.60 | $33.00 – $92.70 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $294.40 | $33.00 – $51.13 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $243.00 | $33.00 – $72.52 |