Removal central venous catheter tunneled without port/pump at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,408.80
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.
$2,348.00
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.
$319.83 with UPMC Work Partners vs $2,825.36 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $319.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $352.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $584.39 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $587.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $680.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $693.89 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $694.43 | ↓ -51% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $700.69 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $704.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $704.40 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $714.29 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $727.90 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $734.63 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $734.70 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $734.70 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $734.70 | ↓ -48% |
| Univera | Commercial | $774.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $857.29 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $939.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $939.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $989.88 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,147.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,291.40 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,291.40 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,296.66 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,526.20 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $1,572.66 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,643.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,643.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,765.87 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,878.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,878.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,825.36 | ↑ +101% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal central venous catheter tunneled without port/pump at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,267.20 | $319.83 – $1,689.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,457.20 | $325.29 – $4,897.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $194.40 | $39.36 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,457.20 | $161.00 – $1,044.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,449.20 | $319.83 – $3,265.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,504.00 | $319.83 – $636.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,457.20 | $334.70 – $1,044.40 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,059.00 | $319.83 – $892.40 |