Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$247.20
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.
$412.00
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.
$22.08 with UPMC Work Partners vs $329.60 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $22.34 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $22.79 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $22.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $23.01 | ↓ -91% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $23.01 | ↓ -91% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $23.01 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $23.46 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $23.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $24.12 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $24.13 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $24.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $24.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $28.00 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $30.61 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $30.71 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $30.80 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $32.20 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $33.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.92 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $41.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $43.16 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $43.71 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $47.72 | ↓ -81% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $61.80 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $66.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $103.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $123.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $123.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $130.42 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $135.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $164.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $164.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $208.67 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $267.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $288.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $288.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $329.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $329.60 | ↑ +33% |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $172.80 | $22.08 – $230.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $149.40 | $8.06 – $224.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $124.80 | $22.12 – $176.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $106.80 | $14.52 – $142.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $126.60 | $22.12 – $176.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $336.00 | $22.08 – $448.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $114.00 | $20.26 – $32.20 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $124.80 | $22.12 – $38.14 |