Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous mammographic guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,692.00
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.
$2,820.00
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.
$90.85 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,256.00 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 | $90.85 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $94.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $99.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $114.79 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $122.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $124.55 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $128.93 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $140.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $171.79 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $327.19 | ↓ -81% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $423.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $519.10 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $705.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $830.56 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $846.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $846.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $930.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,128.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,128.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,128.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,410.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,535.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↓ -7% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,833.00 | ↑ +8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,903.76 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,974.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,974.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $2,256.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $2,256.00 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous mammographic guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,150.20 | $82.59 – $1,533.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $924.60 | $104.89 – $2,479.92 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $751.20 | $85.10 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $924.60 | $108.19 – $1,705.37 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,069.40 | $90.85 – $2,759.20 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $924.60 | $104.89 – $2,476.51 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $575.40 | $86.36 – $2,085.34 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $496.20 | $90.85 – $1,009.56 |