Mr safety implant elec prepj 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

$168.60

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.

$281.00

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.

$42.15 with Univera vs $1,478.00 with United Healthcare — 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
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $42.15 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $70.25 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $76.50 ↓ -55%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $84.30 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $84.30 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $92.73 ↓ -45%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $98.35 ↓ -42%
Fidelis Medicare $101.00 ↓ -40%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $101.97 ↓ -40%
Aetna Medicare $103.02 ↓ -39%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $103.10 ↓ -39%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $103.41 ↓ -39%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $104.03 ↓ -38%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $106.05 ↓ -37%
United Healthcare Medicare $108.07 ↓ -36%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $109.07 ↓ -35%
Cigna Medicare $109.08 ↓ -35%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $109.08 ↓ -35%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.08 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $112.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $112.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $122.40 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $140.50 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $154.55 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $154.55 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $182.65 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $196.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $196.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $224.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $224.80 ↑ +33%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,478.00 ↑ +777%

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Mr safety implant elec prepj at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $166.80 $25.32 – $222.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $168.60 $31.57 – $252.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $168.60 $38.50 – $238.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $167.40 $77.34 – $223.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $168.60 $56.20 – $238.85
UPMC East Monroeville $168.60 $56.91 – $224.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $168.60 $65.71 – $101.97
UPMC Hanover Hanover $168.60 $86.81 – $140.30

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