Tc-99m exametazime diag at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$3,633.00
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.
$6,055.00
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.
$802.34 with Fidelis vs $4,844.00 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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| Fidelis | Medicare | $802.34 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $818.39 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $819.03 | ↓ -77% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $826.41 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $842.46 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $858.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $866.45 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $866.53 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $866.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $866.53 | ↓ -76% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $908.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,513.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,559.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $1,559.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,655.50 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,816.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,816.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,953.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Univera | Commercial | $1,998.15 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $2,119.25 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,228.24 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,422.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2,422.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,126.27 | ↓ -14% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,330.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,330.25 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $3,935.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $4,238.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $4,238.50 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,277.25 | ↑ +18% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $4,844.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $4,844.00 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m exametazime diag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9,344.40 | $818.23 – $12,459.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,335.00 | $616.77 – $1,780.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $9,442.80 | $802.34 – $12,590.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,750.20 | $727.64 – $866.53 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,621.00 | $718.34 – $1,505.59 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,082.00 | $802.34 – $1,684.72 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $566.40 | $750.91 – $1,671.27 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,600.20 | $743.69 – $1,671.27 |