Unlisted px small intestine 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

$2,640.60

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.

$4,401.00

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.

$18.59 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,520.80 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $18.59 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $56.17 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $61.95 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $89.87 ↓ -97%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $660.15 ↓ -75%
Fidelis Medicare $1,031.62 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $1,052.25 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $1,053.08 ↓ -60%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $1,062.57 ↓ -60%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $1,083.20 ↓ -59%
Aetna Commercial $1,100.25 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,103.83 ↓ -58%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,114.05 ↓ -58%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,114.15 ↓ -58%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,114.15 ↓ -58%
Cigna Medicare $1,114.15 ↓ -58%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $1,300.05 ↓ -51%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,320.30 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,320.30 ↓ -50%
Independent Health Commercial $1,412.52 ↓ -47%
Univera Commercial $1,452.33 ↓ -45%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,535.00 ↓ -42%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $1,540.35 ↓ -42%
Cigna Commercial $1,760.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $1,760.40 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2,420.55 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2,420.55 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $2,860.65 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $3,080.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $3,080.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $3,520.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $3,520.80 ↑ +33%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Unlisted px small intestine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,283.60 $18.59 – $3,044.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $130.80 $36.90 – $965.36
UPMC East Monroeville $2,744.40 $18.77 – $3,659.20
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,335.80 $27.95 – $965.36
UPMC Jameson New Castle $942.60 $18.92 – $1,206.70
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,236.20 $18.77 – $983.24
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,511.60 $18.59 – $983.24
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,995.80 $18.77 – $983.24

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