Protein c activity 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

$571.80

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.

$953.00

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.

$13.68 with UPMC Work Partners vs $762.40 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.

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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 $13.68 ↓ -98%
Fidelis Medicare $13.84 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $14.12 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $14.13 ↓ -98%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $14.26 ↓ -98%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $14.26 ↓ -98%
Independent Health Commercial $14.26 ↓ -98%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $14.53 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.81 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.95 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.95 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.95 ↓ -97%
Cigna Medicare $14.95 ↓ -97%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $18.98 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Commercial $19.01 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $19.11 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $21.02 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $21.98 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $22.93 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $26.56 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $28.34 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.83 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $32.57 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $37.62 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $50.81 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $113.68 ↓ -80%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $142.95 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $181.89 ↓ -68%
Aetna Commercial $238.25 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $285.90 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $285.90 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $314.49 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $381.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $381.20 ↓ -33%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $619.45 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $667.10 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $667.10 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $762.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $762.40 ↑ +33%

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Protein c activity at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $310.20 $13.68 – $413.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $100.20 $4.99 – $150.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $70.20 $13.70 – $99.45
UPMC Cole Coudersport $137.40 $9.00 – $183.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $70.20 $13.70 – $101.75
UPMC East Monroeville $289.20 $13.68 – $385.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $121.20 $12.55 – $21.98
UPMC Hanover Hanover $70.20 $13.70 – $26.03

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