Mayo analysis gene smn1 dosage/deletion 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

$1,301.40

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.

$2,169.00

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.

$83.66 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $501.53 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 $83.66 ↓ -94%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $92.70 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $109.60 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $120.56 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $126.04 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $131.52 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $135.40 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Commercial $137.00 ↓ -89%
Fidelis Medicare $137.00 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare $139.74 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $139.85 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $141.11 ↓ -89%
Independent Health Commercial $141.11 ↓ -89%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $141.11 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $143.85 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare $146.59 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $147.95 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $147.96 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $147.96 ↓ -89%
Cigna Medicare $147.96 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $152.33 ↓ -88%
Aetna Commercial $154.50 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $162.54 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $171.10 ↓ -87%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $185.40 ↓ -86%
Cigna New Business ASO $185.40 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $186.78 ↓ -86%
Univera Commercial $203.94 ↓ -84%
Cigna Commercial $247.20 ↓ -81%
Cigna EBR $247.20 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $252.81 ↓ -81%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $288.76 ↓ -78%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $401.70 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $404.50 ↓ -69%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $432.60 ↓ -67%
Aetna AXA/MMO $432.60 ↓ -67%
InterGroup Beech Street $494.40 ↓ -62%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $494.40 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $501.53 ↓ -61%

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Mayo analysis gene smn1 dosage/deletion at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,430.60 $83.66 – $489.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $2,547.60 $49.43 – $556.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $792.60 $109.60 – $1,122.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $792.60 $109.60 – $1,122.85
UPMC East Monroeville $2,547.60 $84.46 – $494.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,547.60 $120.56 – $147.96
UPMC Hanover Hanover $792.60 $109.60 – $219.20
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,261.80 $109.60 – $152.33

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