Platelet aggregation each agent teg at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$357.00

Cash price

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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.

$595.00

Gross charge

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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.

$24.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $476.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $24.62 ↓ -93%
Fidelis Medicare $24.91 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $25.41 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $25.43 ↓ -93%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $25.66 ↓ -93%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $25.66 ↓ -93%
Independent Health Commercial $25.66 ↓ -93%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $26.16 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $26.65 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $26.90 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $26.90 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $26.90 ↓ -92%
Cigna Medicare $26.90 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $29.31 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $29.53 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $32.24 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $33.71 ↓ -91%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $34.12 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $35.17 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $40.74 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $43.47 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $45.76 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $49.95 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $58.40 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $81.04 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $89.25 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $148.75 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $176.48 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $178.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $178.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $196.35 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $238.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $238.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $282.37 ↓ -21%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $386.75 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $416.50 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $416.50 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $476.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $476.00 ↑ +33%

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $120.00 $24.62 – $160.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $129.60 $8.99 – $194.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $126.00 $19.79 – $178.50
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $126.00 $24.66 – $178.50
UPMC East Monroeville $451.80 $24.62 – $602.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $153.00 $22.59 – $33.71
UPMC Hanover Hanover $126.00 $19.79 – $39.92
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $175.80 $22.30 – $46.74

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