Scan duplex aorta/ivc/iliac unilateral/limited at UPMC Hamot

201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590

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

$214.20

Cash price

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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.

$357.00

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.

$53.55 with Univera vs $476.84 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 $53.55 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $89.25 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $98.63 ↓ -54%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $107.10 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $107.10 ↓ -50%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $109.72 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $114.71 ↓ -46%
Fidelis Medicare $117.01 ↓ -45%
Univera Commercial $117.81 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare $119.35 ↓ -44%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $119.44 ↓ -44%
Aetna Medicaid $119.70 ↓ -44%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $120.52 ↓ -44%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $122.86 ↓ -43%
United Healthcare Medicare $125.20 ↓ -42%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $126.36 ↓ -41%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $126.37 ↓ -41%
Cigna Medicare $126.37 ↓ -41%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $126.37 ↓ -41%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $138.64 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $142.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $142.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $147.62 ↓ -31%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $147.93 ↓ -31%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $150.42 ↓ -30%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $155.72 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare Commercial $162.26 ↓ -24%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $166.40 ↓ -22%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $169.99 ↓ -21%
Independent Health Commercial $221.61 ↑ +3%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $232.05 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $249.90 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $249.90 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $285.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $285.60 ↑ +33%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $291.23 ↑ +36%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $298.03 ↑ +39%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $399.68 ↑ +87%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $476.84 ↑ +123%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Scan duplex aorta/ivc/iliac unilateral/limited at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $475.80 $78.60 – $634.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $640.20 $36.58 – $960.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $394.20 $90.01 – $558.45
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $394.20 $17.60 – $381.88
UPMC Northwest Seneca $308.40 $91.94 – $364.91
UPMC Hanover Hanover $394.20 $100.57 – $381.88
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $573.00 $90.77 – $364.91
UPMC Lititz Lititz $394.20 $101.12 – $376.32

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