Remove vc lesion w/scope 31545 at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
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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.
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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.
$326.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,704.20 with Independent Health — 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $326.05 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $340.87 | — |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $355.69 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $411.98 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $439.58 | — |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $446.99 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $462.73 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $505.14 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $677.73 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $688.70 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,754.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,081.08 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,329.70 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $3,547.20 | — |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $4,056.82 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,137.96 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $4,141.20 | — |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $4,178.52 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $4,259.66 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4,340.80 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,380.96 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $4,381.37 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4,381.37 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4,381.37 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,882.39 | — |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $5,112.40 | — |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $5,704.20 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $261.82 | $311.23 – $11,768.86 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $231.61 | $292.36 – $10,099.64 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $326.05 – $3,866.57 |