Glucose body fluid 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

$117.00

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.

$195.00

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.

$3.89 with UPMC Work Partners vs $156.00 with InterGroup — 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 Work Partners Workers Comp $3.89 ↓ -97%
Fidelis Medicare $3.93 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $4.01 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare $4.01 ↓ -97%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $4.05 ↓ -97%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $4.05 ↓ -97%
Independent Health Commercial $4.05 ↓ -97%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $4.13 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.21 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.24 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.24 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.24 ↓ -96%
Cigna Medicare $4.24 ↓ -96%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $4.34 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.77 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $4.99 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $5.21 ↓ -96%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $5.38 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Commercial $5.39 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.03 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.44 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $6.78 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.40 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $10.41 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $22.85 ↓ -80%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $29.25 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $31.45 ↓ -73%
Aetna Commercial $48.75 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $50.33 ↓ -57%
Cigna New Business ASO $58.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $58.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $64.35 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $78.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $78.00 ↓ -33%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $126.75 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $136.50 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $136.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $156.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $156.00 ↑ +33%

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Glucose body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $58.20 $3.89 – $77.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.42 – $49.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $21.00 $3.89 – $29.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $41.40 $2.55 – $55.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $21.00 $3.89 – $45.75
UPMC East Monroeville $80.40 $3.89 – $107.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $3.56 – $4.99
UPMC Hanover Hanover $21.00 $3.89 – $6.29

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