Ins pq tunnld ip cath w/img at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$5,742.00
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.
$9,570.00
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.
$1,435.50 with Univera vs $13,159.82 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.
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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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $1,435.50 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,234.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,392.50 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,608.00 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,721.93 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,871.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,871.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $3,158.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,828.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,828.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,883.10 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,960.76 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,963.87 | ↓ -31% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $3,999.59 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $4,077.26 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4,154.92 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,193.36 | ↓ -27% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $4,193.75 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4,193.75 | ↓ -27% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4,193.75 | ↓ -27% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $4,893.48 | ↓ -15% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5,263.50 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5,263.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $6,060.59 | ↑ +6% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $6,220.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $6,699.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $6,699.00 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $7,656.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $7,656.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $8,224.96 | ↑ +43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10,940.61 | ↑ +91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $13,159.82 | ↑ +129% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ins pq tunnld ip cath w/img at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $7,305.00 | $2,234.51 – $9,740.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $11,758.20 | $1,016.56 – $16,657.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $358.80 | $165.77 – $2,234.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $11,758.20 | $1,016.56 – $16,657.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $11,393.40 | $2,234.51 – $15,191.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,416.80 | $2,234.51 – $3,633.70 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $11,758.20 | $1,016.56 – $8,812.16 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $4,069.20 | $892.40 – $4,542.13 |