Sho arthrs srg capsulorraphy 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

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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.

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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.

$846.09 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,318.28 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.

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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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $846.09
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $875.96
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $884.55
Aetna Medicaid $923.00
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,069.07
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1,140.68
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $1,159.91
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,200.75
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1,310.82
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,883.80
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $2,646.92
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $2,794.87
United Healthcare Commercial $2,849.00
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $3,353.31
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $4,235.03
Fidelis Medicare $7,860.39
Aetna Medicare $8,017.60
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $8,023.89
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $8,096.20
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $8,253.41
United Healthcare Medicare $8,410.62
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8,488.44
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8,489.22
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8,489.22
Cigna Medicare $8,489.22
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $9,905.66
Independent Health Commercial $11,318.28
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Sho arthrs srg capsulorraphy at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $2,060.40 $807.63 – $2,747.20
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $4,937.00 $7,033.14 – $16,387.22
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $769.17 – $7,355.55
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle not published $976.85 – $10,934.13
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg not published $1,016.56 – $11,127.90
UPMC East Monroeville not published $846.09 – $7,491.76
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $846.09 – $7,151.22
UPMC Lititz Lititz not published $976.85 – $10,978.03

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