Nm imaging bone/joint 3 phase study at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,297.80
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.
$2,163.00
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.
$183.01 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,730.40 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $183.01 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $191.33 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $199.64 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $231.24 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $246.73 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $250.89 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $259.72 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $281.50 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $283.53 | ↓ -78% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $324.45 | ↓ -75% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $442.14 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $448.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $450.98 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $451.34 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $455.40 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $464.25 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $473.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $477.47 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $477.51 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $477.51 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $477.51 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $540.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $546.54 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $645.66 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $648.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $648.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $713.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $727.88 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $800.66 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $850.61 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | EBR | $865.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $865.20 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $983.08 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,360.96 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,405.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,514.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,514.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,730.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,730.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Nm imaging bone/joint 3 phase study at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,362.60 | $119.00 – $1,816.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $705.60 | $138.22 – $1,058.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,228.80 | $155.89 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,171.20 | $174.69 – $1,561.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,228.80 | $155.89 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,587.20 | $183.01 – $3,449.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $663.60 | $183.01 – $623.39 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,228.80 | $155.89 – $652.38 |