Teriparatide injection 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

$53.80

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.

$67.25

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.

$10.05 with Univera vs $2,217.72 with Aetna — 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 $10.05 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $14.81 ↓ -72%
Aetna Commercial $16.75 ↓ -69%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $18.97 ↓ -65%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $20.10 ↓ -63%
Cigna New Business ASO $20.10 ↓ -63%
Univera Commercial $22.11 ↓ -59%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $23.45 ↓ -56%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $24.66 ↓ -54%
Cigna EBR $26.80 ↓ -50%
Aetna Medicare $26.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $26.80 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Commercial $30.45 ↓ -43%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $33.50 ↓ -38%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $36.85 ↓ -32%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $36.85 ↓ -32%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $43.55 ↓ -19%
Aetna AXA/MMO $46.90 ↓ -13%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $46.90 ↓ -13%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $50.90 ↓ -5%
Independent Health Commercial $50.90 ↓ -5%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $53.60 ↓ -0%
InterGroup Beech Street $53.60 ↓ -0%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $57.38 ↑ +7%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $91.81 ↑ +71%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $1,848.10 ↑ +3335%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $2,125.32 ↑ +3850%
Aetna Medicaid $2,217.72 ↑ +4022%

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Teriparatide injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $9,430.20 $14.96 – $2,032.91
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $5,429.40 $14.96 – $1,848.10
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $6,598.80 $14.96 – $2,032.91
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD not published $51.34 – $65.68
GROVE CITY HOSPITAL GROVE CITY not published $51.34 – $65.68

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