Red blood cells washed each unit at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$783.60
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.
$1,306.00
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.
$154.43 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,044.80 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 | $154.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $195.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $326.50 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $362.52 | ↓ -54% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $378.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $378.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $391.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $391.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $430.98 | ↓ -45% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $436.68 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $445.41 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $445.76 | ↓ -43% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $449.78 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $458.51 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $466.64 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $467.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $471.57 | ↓ -40% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $471.61 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $471.61 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $471.61 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $480.61 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $522.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $522.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $548.00 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $593.58 | ↓ -24% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $718.30 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $718.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $746.62 | ↓ -5% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $848.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $914.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $914.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,044.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,044.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $564.00 | $155.90 – $752.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $871.80 | $343.14 – $548.00 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $520.20 | $157.15 – $548.00 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $379.20 | $155.90 – $548.00 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $660.00 | $154.43 – $548.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $665.40 | $155.90 – $637.21 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,039.40 | $155.90 – $711.48 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $449.40 | $155.90 – $548.00 |