Sarscov coronavirus ag ia at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$34.80

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.

$58.00

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.

$8.70 with Univera vs $406.47 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.

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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
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $8.70 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $14.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $17.40 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $17.40 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $19.14 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $23.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $23.20 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $30.76 ↓ -12%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $34.92 ↑ +0%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $34.94 ↑ +0%
Fidelis Medicare $35.33 ↑ +2%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $35.33 ↑ +2%
Independent Health Commercial $35.33 ↑ +2%
Aetna Medicare $36.04 ↑ +4%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $36.06 ↑ +4%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $36.39 ↑ +5%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $37.10 ↑ +7%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $37.70 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare Medicare $37.80 ↑ +9%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $38.15 ↑ +10%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $38.16 ↑ +10%
Cigna Medicare $38.16 ↑ +10%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $38.16 ↑ +10%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $38.43 ↑ +10%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $40.18 ↑ +15%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $40.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $40.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna Medicaid $41.93 ↑ +20%
United Healthcare Commercial $45.37 ↑ +30%
InterGroup Beech Street $46.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $46.40 ↑ +33%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $48.56 ↑ +40%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $51.82 ↑ +49%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $54.54 ↑ +57%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $59.54 ↑ +71%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $76.25 ↑ +119%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $84.07 ↑ +142%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $254.05 ↑ +630%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $406.47 ↑ +1068%

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Sarscov coronavirus ag ia at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $34.80 $29.00 – $84.07
UPMC Bedford Everett $34.80 $12.75 – $52.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $84.60 $17.76 – $119.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $84.60 $28.20 – $119.85
UPMC East Monroeville $34.80 $19.14 – $84.87
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $32.04 – $40.18
UPMC Hanover Hanover $84.60 $17.76 – $56.53
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $34.80 $31.63 – $66.30

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