Treatment of thigh fracture 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

$2,334.00

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$3,890.00

Gross charge

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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.

$340.00 with United Healthcare vs $3,112.00 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.

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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

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
United Healthcare Commercial $340.00 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $348.70 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $364.55 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicaid $380.40 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $440.60 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $470.11 ↓ -80%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $478.04 ↓ -80%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $494.87 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $540.23 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $545.04 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $583.50 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $972.50 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,167.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,167.00 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $1,283.70 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $1,556.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $1,556.00 ↓ -33%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,570.96 ↓ -33%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $1,572.66 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,646.96 ↓ -29%
Fidelis Medicare $1,760.96 ↓ -25%
Aetna Medicare $1,796.18 ↓ -23%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $1,797.59 ↓ -23%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $1,813.79 ↓ -22%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $1,849.01 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,884.23 ↓ -19%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,901.66 ↓ -19%
Cigna Medicare $1,901.84 ↓ -19%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,901.84 ↓ -19%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,901.84 ↓ -19%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,147.94 ↓ -8%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $2,219.16 ↓ -5%
Independent Health Commercial $2,454.61 ↑ +5%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $2,528.50 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,635.11 ↑ +13%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $2,723.00 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $2,723.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $3,112.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $3,112.00 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Treatment of thigh fracture at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,275.20 $317.00 – $3,033.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,055.00 $402.59 – $2,911.25
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2,055.00 $402.59 – $2,911.25
UPMC East Monroeville $2,790.00 $348.70 – $3,720.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $3,352.80 $348.70 – $1,602.09
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2,055.00 $402.59 – $2,446.19
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $4,482.60 $348.70 – $1,647.86
UPMC Jameson New Castle $379.80 $348.70 – $2,059.83

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