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Leg Vein Ultrasound (DVT study, both legs) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,021.80
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.
$1,703.00
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.
$84.33 with BCBS of Western NY vs $1,362.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $84.33 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $157.96 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $161.33 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $168.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $175.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $203.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $217.50 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $221.16 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $228.95 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $239.32 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $249.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $255.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $265.97 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $271.29 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $271.50 | ↓ -73% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $273.95 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $279.27 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $284.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $287.22 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $287.25 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $287.25 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $287.25 | ↓ -72% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $345.98 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $425.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $460.77 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $460.85 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $477.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $510.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $510.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $561.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $681.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $681.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $763.70 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $774.01 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,106.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,192.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,192.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,362.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,362.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Leg Vein Ultrasound (DVT study, both legs) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $817.80 | $159.46 – $1,090.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,092.20 | $159.46 – $2,963.95 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $819.60 | $149.60 – $1,161.10 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,053.00 | $114.20 – $1,404.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $466.80 | $83.15 – $700.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $495.00 | $153.99 – $660.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $819.60 | $27.00 – $479.25 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $819.60 | $149.60 – $1,188.42 |