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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$150.00
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.
$250.00
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.
$16.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $273.55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $16.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $17.25 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $18.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $20.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $22.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $22.62 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $23.42 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $25.56 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $27.60 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $37.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $37.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $62.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $75.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $75.00 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $78.35 | ↓ -48% |
| Univera | Commercial | $82.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $83.41 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $90.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | EBR | $100.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $100.00 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $113.62 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $133.45 | ↓ -11% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $162.50 | ↑ +8% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $172.16 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $175.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $175.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $175.60 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $175.74 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $177.32 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $180.77 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $184.21 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $185.92 | ↑ +24% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $185.93 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $185.93 | ↑ +24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $185.93 | ↑ +24% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $200.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $200.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $205.40 | ↑ +37% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $273.55 | ↑ +82% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Lung Function Test (Spirometry) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $171.60 | $16.50 – $243.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $142.20 | $16.50 – $189.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $346.20 | $11.79 – $490.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $199.80 | $9.00 – $266.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $171.60 | $15.75 – $257.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $100.20 | $15.75 – $92.23 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $346.20 | $11.79 – $280.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $346.20 | $11.79 – $501.99 |