Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets 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

$1,088.40

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.

$1,814.00

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.

$196.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,451.20 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $196.33 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $259.92 ↓ -76%
Fidelis Medicare $262.99 ↓ -76%
Aetna Medicare $268.25 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $268.46 ↓ -75%
Independent Health Commercial $270.88 ↓ -75%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $270.88 ↓ -75%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $270.88 ↓ -75%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $272.10 ↓ -75%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $276.14 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare $281.40 ↓ -74%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $284.00 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $284.03 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $284.03 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $284.03 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Commercial $290.45 ↓ -73%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $360.27 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial $453.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $544.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $544.20 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $593.25 ↓ -45%
Univera Commercial $598.62 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $654.30 ↓ -40%
Cigna Commercial $725.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $725.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $949.19 ↓ -13%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $997.70 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $997.70 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,179.10 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,269.80 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,269.80 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,451.20 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,451.20 ↑ +33%

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Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $968.40 $196.33 – $1,291.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,230.60 $94.89 – $1,845.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $553.20 $126.31 – $783.70
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $553.20 $184.40 – $1,310.29
UPMC East Monroeville $793.20 $198.20 – $1,057.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,008.00 $238.51 – $284.03
UPMC Hanover Hanover $553.20 $190.06 – $1,310.29
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $728.40 $235.45 – $317.45

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