I&d abscss rtrphryngl/paraphryngl intraorl apprch at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$3,332.40
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.
$5,554.00
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.
$98.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,868.12 with Independent Health — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $98.45 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $102.92 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $107.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $124.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $132.73 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $134.97 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $139.72 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $152.53 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $456.27 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $545.04 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $833.10 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,388.50 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,535.00 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,646.96 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,666.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,666.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,832.82 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,127.43 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,221.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,221.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,635.11 | ↓ -21% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,568.41 | ↑ +7% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $3,610.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,639.78 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,642.63 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,675.46 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $3,746.83 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,818.20 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,853.53 | ↑ +16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,853.88 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,853.88 | ↑ +16% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,853.88 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $3,887.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $3,887.80 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $4,443.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $4,443.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $4,496.91 | ↑ +35% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $4,868.12 | ↑ +46% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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I&d abscss rtrphryngl/paraphryngl intraorl apprch at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,971.40 | $113.67 – $5,626.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,460.40 | $93.97 – $1,017.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,971.40 | $113.67 – $5,626.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,812.80 | $98.45 – $3,750.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,812.80 | $98.45 – $3,246.47 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,971.40 | $113.67 – $4,956.96 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3,971.40 | $113.67 – $4,983.74 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,651.80 | $98.45 – $3,401.07 |