Pentobarbital sodium inj at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$5,367.60
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.
$8,946.00
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.
$3.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $96.35 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.
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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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.33 | ↓ -100% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $12.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $20.04 | ↓ -100% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $20.04 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.66 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $24.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $24.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Univera | Commercial | $26.40 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $28.00 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $29.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | EBR | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.00 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $36.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $40.00 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $44.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $44.00 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $52.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $56.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $56.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $60.22 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $64.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $64.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $96.35 | ↓ -98% |
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Pentobarbital sodium inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $115.20 | $1.50 – $9.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $7,574.40 | $3.36 – $3.36 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $115.20 | $1.80 – $9.00 |