Thyroid mets imag whole body 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

$1,201.20

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.

$2,002.00

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.

$103.40 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,601.60 with Multiplan — 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 $103.40 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $108.10 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicaid $112.80 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $130.65 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $139.40 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $141.75 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $146.74 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $160.19 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $289.58 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $300.30 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $461.77 ↓ -62%
Aetna Commercial $500.50 ↓ -58%
Fidelis Medicare $592.27 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $600.60 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $600.60 ↓ -50%
Aetna Medicare $604.12 ↓ -50%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $604.59 ↓ -50%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $610.04 ↓ -49%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $621.88 ↓ -48%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $628.27 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Medicare $633.73 ↓ -47%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $639.59 ↓ -47%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $639.65 ↓ -47%
Cigna Medicare $639.65 ↓ -47%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $639.65 ↓ -47%
Univera Commercial $660.66 ↓ -45%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $700.71 ↓ -42%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $724.45 ↓ -40%
Cigna EBR $800.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $800.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $875.04 ↓ -27%
United Healthcare Commercial $909.91 ↓ -24%
Independent Health Commercial $933.20 ↓ -22%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $1,301.30 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,400.05 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $1,401.40 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $1,401.40 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $1,601.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $1,601.60 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Thyroid mets imag whole body at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $703.80 $56.50 – $938.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,574.40 $74.02 – $2,230.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,574.40 $74.02 – $2,230.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,574.40 $74.02 – $822.74
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,366.20 $103.40 – $583.15
UPMC Jameson New Castle $696.00 $64.97 – $641.48
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,574.40 $74.02 – $827.18
UPMC Memorial York $1,574.40 $74.02 – $1,613.77

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