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Tonsillectomy (child under 12) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
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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.
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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.
$599.35 with UPMC Work Partners vs $9,136.69 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.
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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $599.35 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,631.43 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,754.00 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $2,794.87 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,929.75 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,416.07 | — |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $6,509.12 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6,639.30 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $6,644.51 | — |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $6,704.39 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $6,834.58 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $6,964.76 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $7,029.20 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $7,029.85 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $7,029.85 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $7,029.85 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,887.53 | — |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $8,202.79 | — |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $9,136.69 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Tonsillectomy (child under 12) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $557.45 – $6,091.06 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $557.45 – $6,091.06 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | not published | $557.45 – $5,167.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $590.39 – $7,348.95 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $590.39 – $9,041.97 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | not published | $590.39 – $9,076.05 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $564.15 – $6,091.06 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $557.45 – $6,090.50 |