Ultrasound hips infant dynamic 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

$561.00

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.

$935.00

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.

$96.88 with Fidelis vs $748.00 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
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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
Fidelis Medicare $96.88 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $98.82 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $98.90 ↓ -82%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $99.79 ↓ -82%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $101.72 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $102.22 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $103.66 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $104.62 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $104.63 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $104.63 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $104.63 ↓ -81%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $118.50 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $124.21 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $129.86 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicaid $135.50 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $140.25 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $156.95 ↓ -72%
Independent Health Commercial $157.79 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $165.46 ↓ -71%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $167.46 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $170.28 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $176.28 ↓ -69%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $192.44 ↓ -66%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $207.06 ↓ -63%
Aetna Commercial $233.75 ↓ -58%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $235.70 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Commercial $276.00 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $280.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $280.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $308.55 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $308.87 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $374.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $374.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $494.18 ↓ -12%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $607.75 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $654.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $654.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $748.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $748.00 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Ultrasound hips infant dynamic at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $652.20 $84.34 – $869.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $280.20 $63.98 – $396.95
UPMC Cole Coudersport $311.40 $108.01 – $415.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $280.20 $85.74 – $396.95
UPMC Northwest Seneca $516.60 $76.13 – $207.06
UPMC Hanover Hanover $280.20 $83.27 – $216.69
UPMC Lititz Lititz $280.20 $83.72 – $216.69
UPMC Memorial York $280.20 $83.31 – $379.51

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