Ins/rpl ldless pm right vent w img & eval 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

$17,683.80

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.

$29,473.00

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.

$307.59 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $29,392.54 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.

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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 $307.59 ↓ -98%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $610.14 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $929.47 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,487.14 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $2,794.87 ↓ -84%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $4,420.95 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $7,368.25 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Commercial $8,343.00 ↓ -53%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $8,841.90 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $8,841.90 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $9,726.09 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10,846.06 ↓ -39%
Cigna EBR $11,789.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $11,789.20 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $16,210.15 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $16,210.15 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $19,157.45 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $20,631.10 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $20,631.10 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $20,984.38 ↑ +19%
Aetna Medicare $21,404.07 ↑ +21%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $21,420.86 ↑ +21%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $21,613.91 ↑ +22%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $22,033.60 ↑ +25%
United Healthcare Medicare $22,453.29 ↑ +27%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $22,661.03 ↑ +28%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $22,663.13 ↑ +28%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $22,663.13 ↑ +28%
Cigna Medicare $22,663.13 ↑ +28%
InterGroup Beech Street $23,578.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $23,578.40 ↑ +33%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $26,444.52 ↑ +50%
Independent Health Commercial $29,392.54 ↑ +66%

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Ins/rpl ldless pm right vent w img & eval at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $15,600.00 $307.59 – $20,800.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $24,161.40 $638.52 – $34,228.65
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $24,161.40 $638.52 – $34,228.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $24,161.40 $638.52 – $29,149.89
UPMC Lititz Lititz $24,161.40 $638.52 – $29,307.34
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,543.20 $310.52 – $20,000.27
UPMC Memorial York $24,161.40 $250.70 – $29,259.74
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $16,670.40 $307.59 – $20,000.27

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