Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$85.20
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.
$142.00
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.
$5.50 with UPMC Work Partners vs $113.60 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $5.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $5.74 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.18 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.80 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $7.11 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $7.42 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $7.62 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $7.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $8.59 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.16 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.65 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.83 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $16.44 | ↓ -81% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $21.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $35.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $42.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $42.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $44.82 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $46.86 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $56.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $56.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $56.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $71.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $71.71 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $92.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $99.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $99.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $113.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $113.60 | ↑ +33% |
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Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $54.00 | $5.21 – $14.97 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $5.50 – $14.97 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $54.40 | $5.57 – $48.96 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $63.20 | $5.63 – $25.29 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $36.00 | $5.57 – $23.00 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $28.50 | $5.26 – $11.57 |
| WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital | Waynesboro | $54.40 | $5.57 – $36.83 |
| WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital | Lewisburg | $36.00 | $5.51 – $32.44 |