Mayo infectious agent nucleic acid quantification cytomegalovirus 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

$373.80

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.

$623.00

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.

$42.34 with UPMC Work Partners vs $549.72 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $42.34 ↓ -89%
Fidelis Medicare $42.84 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare $43.70 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $43.73 ↓ -88%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $44.13 ↓ -88%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $44.13 ↓ -88%
Independent Health Commercial $44.13 ↓ -88%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $44.98 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $45.84 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $46.26 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $46.27 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $46.27 ↓ -88%
Cigna Medicare $46.27 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $48.54 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $53.39 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $55.82 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicaid $58.25 ↓ -84%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $58.70 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Commercial $58.88 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $67.47 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $71.98 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $75.78 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $82.72 ↓ -78%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $93.45 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $113.70 ↓ -70%
Aetna Commercial $155.75 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $165.80 ↓ -56%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $186.90 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $186.90 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $205.59 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $249.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $249.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $343.58 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $404.95 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $436.10 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $436.10 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $498.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $498.40 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $549.72 ↑ +47%

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Mayo infectious agent nucleic acid quantification cytomegalovirus at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $293.40 $42.34 – $391.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $257.40 $15.46 – $386.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $238.80 $42.41 – $338.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $197.40 $27.85 – $263.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $259.20 $42.41 – $338.30
UPMC East Monroeville $879.00 $42.34 – $1,172.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $236.40 $38.85 – $55.82
UPMC Hanover Hanover $238.80 $42.41 – $68.54

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