Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at UPMC Hamot
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$2,521.20
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.
$4,202.00
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.
$485.10 with Independent Health vs $4,178.86 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.
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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| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $485.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $485.10 | ↓ -81% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $535.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $546.69 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $547.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $552.05 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $562.77 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $573.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $578.79 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $578.85 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $578.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $578.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $630.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $864.34 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $980.07 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,050.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,260.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,260.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,386.66 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,546.34 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,680.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,680.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,909.81 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,311.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,311.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,611.81 | ↑ +4% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $2,731.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $2,941.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $2,941.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $3,361.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $3,361.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,178.86 | ↑ +66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Platelets pheresis leukocytes reduced each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,444.20 | $473.58 – $1,925.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,914.60 | $167.55 – $2,871.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $715.80 | $163.44 – $1,014.05 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $715.80 | $238.60 – $1,559.99 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,741.00 | $465.64 – $4,988.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,644.00 | $421.16 – $501.54 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $715.80 | $388.09 – $1,559.99 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $4,768.80 | $415.77 – $871.43 |