Pericardial drain w/cath pq w/ct guid at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$3,992.40
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.
$6,654.00
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.
$130.21 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,323.20 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $130.21 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $280.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $393.46 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $559.01 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $629.53 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $998.10 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,535.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,663.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,996.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,996.20 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $2,195.82 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,448.67 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,661.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,661.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,661.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,327.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,659.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,659.70 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $4,325.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,657.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $4,657.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $5,323.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $5,323.20 | ↑ +33% |
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Pericardial drain w/cath pq w/ct guid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,568.20 | $131.45 – $280.45 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,314.40 | $131.45 – $326.11 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,169.00 | $131.45 – $356.60 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,503.00 | $176.56 – $366.72 |