Ghs o2 uptake rest & indirect 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

$54.00

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.

$90.00

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.

$8.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $91.67 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.

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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 $8.25 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $8.62 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicaid $9.00 ↓ -83%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $9.51 ↓ -82%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.42 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.12 ↓ -79%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $11.31 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.71 ↓ -78%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.78 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $13.50 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $18.96 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial $22.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $27.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $27.00 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $29.70 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $32.49 ↓ -40%
Cigna EBR $36.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $36.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna Medicare $36.00 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $40.91 ↓ -24%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $45.00 ↓ -17%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $49.63 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $57.29 ↑ +6%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $57.84 ↑ +7%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $58.50 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $63.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $63.00 ↑ +17%
Independent Health Commercial $66.10 ↑ +22%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $72.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $72.00 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $91.67 ↑ +70%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Ghs o2 uptake rest & indirect at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Lititz Lititz $172.80 $5.89 – $91.28
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $54.00 $8.25 – $62.29
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $155.40 $5.40 – $72.24

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