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New Patient Office Visit (level 3) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$231.60
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.
$386.00
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.
$57.90 with Univera vs $334.78 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.
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 |
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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $57.90 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $59.67 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $62.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $63.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $63.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $65.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $75.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $80.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $81.81 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $84.69 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $92.45 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $96.01 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $96.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $115.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $127.38 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $139.29 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $154.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $154.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $193.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $206.88 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $209.24 | ↓ -10% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $220.61 | ↓ -5% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $250.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $270.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $270.20 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $274.62 | ↑ +19% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $308.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $308.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $334.78 | ↑ +45% |
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New Patient Office Visit (level 3) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $330.00 | $36.08 – $440.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $238.80 | $59.67 – $338.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $230.40 | $20.00 – $307.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $229.20 | $36.08 – $343.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $271.80 | $56.06 – $190.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $441.00 | $39.20 – $513.69 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $117.60 | $37.24 – $170.52 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $338.40 | $56.96 – $479.40 |