Hbot, full body chamber, 30m at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,031.40
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.
$1,719.00
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.
$29.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,375.20 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.67 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $48.28 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $50.47 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $52.67 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $61.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $65.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $66.19 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $68.52 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $74.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $89.64 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $143.43 | ↓ -86% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $151.73 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $154.76 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $154.89 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $156.28 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $159.32 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $162.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $163.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $163.87 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $163.87 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $163.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $257.85 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $307.94 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $429.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $515.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $515.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $567.27 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $632.59 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $687.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $687.60 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $781.29 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,117.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,203.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,203.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,375.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,375.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Hbot, full body chamber, 30m at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $400.20 | $29.67 – $533.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $544.80 | $55.74 – $771.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $430.80 | $48.28 – $77.00 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $544.80 | $55.74 – $210.78 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $872.40 | $48.28 – $141.99 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $872.40 | $30.19 – $164.34 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $544.80 | $55.74 – $211.92 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $175.80 | $29.95 – $141.99 |