Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$557.40
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.
$929.00
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.
$25.67 with UPMC Health Plan vs $743.20 with InterGroup — 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 | $25.67 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $40.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $40.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $40.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $45.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $45.01 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $114.77 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $137.74 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $139.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $183.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $232.25 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $263.09 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $278.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $278.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $293.14 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $306.57 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $325.15 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $341.87 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $371.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $371.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $371.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $464.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $603.85 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $650.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $650.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $743.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $743.20 | ↑ +33% |
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Perflutren lipid microspheres 1.1 mg/ml intravenous suspension at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,221.60 | $25.67 – $566.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $606.00 | $25.67 – $456.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $104.40 | $7.95 – $59.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $262.80 | $44.72 – $350.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $104.40 | $11.60 – $229.34 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $618.60 | $25.67 – $824.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $824.40 | $25.67 – $357.48 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $104.40 | $40.65 – $59.45 |