Insert cath pleura without image at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$931.20
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.
$1,552.00
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.
$232.80 with Univera vs $2,980.02 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.
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 | $232.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $388.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $465.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $465.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $472.66 | ↓ -49% |
| Univera | Commercial | $512.16 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $571.14 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $620.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $620.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $791.18 | ↓ -15% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $853.60 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $853.60 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,008.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,086.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,086.40 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,241.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,428.24 | ↑ +53% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,535.00 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↑ +69% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $2,087.30 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,129.05 | ↑ +129% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $2,130.72 | ↑ +129% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $2,149.92 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,191.66 | ↑ +135% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,233.41 | ↑ +140% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,254.08 | ↑ +142% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,254.28 | ↑ +142% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,254.28 | ↑ +142% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,254.28 | ↑ +142% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,285.16 | ↑ +145% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,630.42 | ↑ +182% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $2,980.02 | ↑ +220% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $843.60 | $472.66 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $218.40 | $44.35 – $791.18 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $832.80 | $458.04 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,829.00 | $791.18 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,109.00 | $791.18 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,335.80 | $481.00 – $2,441.54 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,370.00 | $477.16 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $697.20 | $472.66 – $1,989.40 |