Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr 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

$169.60

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.

$212.00

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.

$3.75 with Univera vs $28.64 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
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $3.75 ↓ -98%
Aetna Commercial $6.25 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.08 ↓ -96%
Cigna New Business ASO $7.50 ↓ -96%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $7.50 ↓ -96%
Univera Commercial $8.25 ↓ -95%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $8.75 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $9.15 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.20 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare $10.00 ↓ -94%
Cigna EBR $10.00 ↓ -94%
Cigna Commercial $10.00 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Commercial $11.36 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $12.50 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.46 ↓ -92%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $16.25 ↓ -90%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $17.50 ↓ -90%
Aetna AXA/MMO $17.50 ↓ -90%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $17.59 ↓ -90%
Independent Health Commercial $17.59 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $17.90 ↓ -89%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $20.00 ↓ -88%
InterGroup Beech Street $20.00 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $21.31 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $21.31 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $21.31 ↓ -87%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $22.88 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $26.31 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicaid $27.45 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $28.64 ↓ -83%

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Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $80.40 $9.15 – $62.82
UPMC Bedford Everett $27.80 $8.50 – $30.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $22.20 $2.47 – $25.17
UPMC Cole Coudersport $19.80 $2.22 – $21.31
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $22.20 $3.60 – $26.21
UPMC East Monroeville $55.00 $3.95 – $26.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $42.80 $13.46 – $27.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $22.20 $21.31 – $25.17

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