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Gallbladder Removal (Laparoscopic) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
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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.
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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.
$1,414.39 with UPMC Work Partners vs $8,918.49 with Independent Health — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,414.39 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,631.43 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,849.00 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $4,042.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,929.75 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,394.38 | — |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $6,419.66 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6,548.05 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $6,553.19 | — |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $6,612.25 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $6,740.64 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $6,869.04 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $6,932.59 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $6,933.23 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $6,933.23 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $6,933.23 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,887.53 | — |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $8,090.06 | — |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $8,918.49 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Gallbladder Removal (Laparoscopic) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,009.80 | $466.53 – $1,677.17 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $8,289.60 | $756.80 – $6,198.27 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $8,289.60 | $626.06 – $5,562.36 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,414.39 – $6,118.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $1,414.39 – $6,007.35 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $1,414.39 – $6,007.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $1,414.39 – $6,118.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $1,016.56 – $8,930.03 |