Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s) and/or steroid other peripheral nerve/branch (both sides) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$879.00
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.
$1,465.00
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.
$23.10 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,172.00 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $23.10 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $24.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $25.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $31.14 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $31.67 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $32.78 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $35.79 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $168.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $204.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $219.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $366.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $439.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $439.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $483.45 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $494.99 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | EBR | $586.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $586.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $617.85 | ↓ -30% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $761.99 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $777.23 | ↓ -12% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $777.84 | ↓ -12% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $784.85 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $800.09 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $810.81 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $815.33 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $822.87 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $822.95 | ↓ -6% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $822.95 | ↓ -6% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $822.95 | ↓ -6% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $952.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $960.26 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $988.55 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,025.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,025.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $1,102.52 | ↑ +25% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,147.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,172.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,172.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s) and/or steroid other peripheral nerve/branch (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $820.80 | $21.00 – $1,094.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $454.20 | $22.05 – $681.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $948.00 | $26.67 – $1,343.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $478.20 | $19.40 – $149.53 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $948.00 | $26.67 – $1,343.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $856.80 | $23.10 – $1,142.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $611.40 | $23.10 – $693.24 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $948.00 | $26.67 – $1,058.50 |