Metered dose inhaler drug 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

$1,932.80

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.

$2,416.00

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.

$2.72 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $128.80 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.

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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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $2.72 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $3.13 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicaid $3.27 ↓ -100%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $24.15 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial $40.25 ↓ -98%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $45.60 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $48.30 ↓ -98%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $48.30 ↓ -98%
Univera Commercial $53.13 ↓ -97%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $56.35 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $59.25 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare $64.40 ↓ -97%
Cigna EBR $64.40 ↓ -97%
Cigna Commercial $64.40 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Commercial $73.17 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $78.89 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $80.50 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $80.50 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $88.55 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $88.55 ↓ -95%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $104.65 ↓ -95%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $112.70 ↓ -94%
Aetna AXA/MMO $112.70 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $126.22 ↓ -93%
InterGroup Beech Street $128.80 ↓ -93%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $128.80 ↓ -93%

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Metered dose inhaler drug at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,149.60 $2.72 – $84.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,111.20 $2.72 – $137.70
UPMC East Monroeville $1,718.40 $2.72 – $122.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,111.20 $2.86 – $12.88
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,718.40 $2.22 – $10.64
UPMC Jameson New Castle $1,111.20 $10.64 – $10.64
UPMC Kane Kane $408.60 $7.84 – $7.84
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $3,034.20 $2.99 – $10.64

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