Mayo valpg valproic acid free therapeutic drug level 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

$222.60

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.

$371.00

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.

$12.47 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $296.80 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.

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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 $12.47 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.38 ↓ -94%
Fidelis Medicare $13.54 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $13.81 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $13.82 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Commercial $13.95 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $13.95 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $13.95 ↓ -94%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $14.22 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.49 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.62 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.62 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.62 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $14.62 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $14.75 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $16.23 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $16.96 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicaid $17.70 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $18.44 ↓ -92%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $18.54 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $20.50 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $21.87 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $23.03 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $25.14 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $37.69 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $41.02 ↓ -82%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $55.65 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $60.30 ↓ -73%
Aetna Commercial $92.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $111.30 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $111.30 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $122.43 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $148.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $148.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $241.15 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $259.70 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $259.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $296.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $296.80 ↑ +33%

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Mayo valpg valproic acid free therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $183.60 $12.47 – $244.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $96.00 $12.28 – $16.96
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $75.60 $12.12 – $20.50
UPMC Jameson New Castle $64.80 $12.69 – $16.96
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $115.80 $12.55 – $16.23
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $189.00 $11.29 – $16.96
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $490.80 $12.59 – $22.96
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $205.80 $11.69 – $23.03

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