Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use 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

$39.60

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.

$66.00

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.

$2.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $52.80 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $2.00 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $2.20 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $2.30 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicaid $2.40 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.78 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.97 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $3.12 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $3.22 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.24 ↓ -92%
Fidelis Medicare $3.28 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $3.35 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $3.35 ↓ -92%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $3.38 ↓ -91%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $3.38 ↓ -91%
Independent Health Commercial $3.38 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $3.41 ↓ -91%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $3.44 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $3.51 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3.54 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $3.54 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $3.54 ↓ -91%
Cigna Medicare $3.54 ↓ -91%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $4.49 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $7.06 ↓ -82%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $9.90 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $13.23 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial $16.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $19.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $19.80 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $21.34 ↓ -46%
Univera Commercial $21.78 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $26.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $26.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $34.15 ↓ -14%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $42.90 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $46.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $46.20 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $52.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $52.80 ↑ +33%

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Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $23.40 $2.00 – $31.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $43.80 $1.18 – $65.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $11.40 $2.00 – $16.15
UPMC Cole Coudersport $16.80 $2.10 – $22.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $19.20 $2.00 – $27.20
UPMC East Monroeville $54.60 $2.00 – $72.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $32.40 $2.20 – $3.44
UPMC Hanover Hanover $11.40 $2.00 – $5.25

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