Ketone body(s) beta-hydroxybutyrate quantitative 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

$111.60

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.

$186.00

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.

$5.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $148.80 with Multiplan — 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $5.00 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.50 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $5.75 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicaid $6.00 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.95 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $7.42 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.81 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.08 ↓ -93%
Fidelis Medicare $8.17 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $8.33 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $8.34 ↓ -93%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $8.42 ↓ -92%
Independent Health Commercial $8.42 ↓ -92%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $8.42 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.52 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $8.58 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.74 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.82 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.82 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.82 ↓ -92%
Cigna Medicare $8.82 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $11.19 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Commercial $11.23 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $12.84 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $21.78 ↓ -80%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $27.90 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $38.81 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial $46.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $55.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $55.80 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $61.38 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $62.10 ↓ -44%
Cigna Commercial $74.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $74.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $120.90 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $130.20 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $130.20 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $148.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $148.80 ↑ +33%

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Ketone body(s) beta-hydroxybutyrate quantitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $28.80 $5.00 – $38.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $71.40 $2.95 – $107.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $42.00 $5.00 – $59.50
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $42.00 $5.00 – $59.50
UPMC East Monroeville $99.00 $5.00 – $132.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $43.80 $5.50 – $8.58
UPMC Hanover Hanover $42.00 $5.00 – $13.07
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $52.80 $5.00 – $15.33

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