Mayo organic acids qualitative each specimen at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$273.00
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.
$455.00
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.
$16.26 with UPMC Work Partners vs $364.00 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.
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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.26 | ↓ -94% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $16.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $16.78 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $16.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $16.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $16.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $16.94 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $17.27 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $17.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $17.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $17.77 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $17.77 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $17.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $18.20 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.02 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $20.93 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $21.84 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $22.53 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $22.62 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $25.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $26.99 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $28.41 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $31.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $43.70 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $66.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $68.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $113.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $132.05 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $136.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $136.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $150.15 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | EBR | $182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $211.28 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $295.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $318.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $318.50 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $364.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $364.00 | ↑ +33% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Mayo organic acids qualitative each specimen at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $217.20 | $16.26 – $289.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $225.00 | $16.26 – $300.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $229.20 | $14.92 – $20.93 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $161.40 | $14.73 – $30.87 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $229.80 | $16.26 – $44.47 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $138.60 | $15.40 – $44.12 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $102.00 | $15.29 – $44.12 |