Tte w or without fol w/con,stres at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$696.00

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.

$1,160.00

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.

$174.00 with Univera vs $2,090.78 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 $174.00 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $290.00 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $348.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $348.00 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $382.80 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $426.88 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $432.45 ↓ -38%
Cigna Commercial $464.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $464.00 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $527.22 ↓ -24%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $534.51 ↓ -23%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $638.00 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $638.00 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $754.00 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $812.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $812.00 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $869.32 ↑ +25%
Aetna Medicare $886.71 ↑ +27%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $887.40 ↑ +28%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $895.40 ↑ +29%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $912.79 ↑ +31%
InterGroup Beech Street $928.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $928.00 ↑ +33%
United Healthcare Medicare $930.17 ↑ +34%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $938.78 ↑ +35%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $938.87 ↑ +35%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $938.87 ↑ +35%
Cigna Medicare $938.87 ↑ +35%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $1,010.76 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,306.75 ↑ +88%
Independent Health Commercial $1,346.13 ↑ +93%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,090.78 ↑ +200%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Tte w or without fol w/con,stres at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,360.80 $432.45 – $2,414.05
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,457.00 $415.68 – $3,480.75
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2,457.00 $591.94 – $3,480.75
UPMC Northwest Seneca $626.40 $683.10 – $813.49
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2,457.00 $591.94 – $2,414.05
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,405.40 $674.37 – $1,048.86
UPMC Jameson New Castle $2,782.80 $440.08 – $941.54
UPMC Lititz Lititz $2,457.00 $591.94 – $2,414.05

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