Vaccine influenza quadrivalent (iiv4) preservative free 0.5ml dose im 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

$12.00

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.

$20.00

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.

$3.00 with Univera vs $72.51 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 $3.00 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $5.00 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $6.00 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $6.00 ↓ -50%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.03 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $6.60 ↓ -45%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $7.00 ↓ -42%
Cigna Commercial $8.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $8.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna Medicare $8.00 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.09 ↓ -24%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.00 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $11.00 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $11.50 ↓ -4%
Aetna Medicaid $12.00 ↑ +0%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $13.00 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.90 ↑ +16%
Aetna AXA/MMO $14.00 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $14.00 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $14.31 ↑ +19%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.83 ↑ +24%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $15.08 ↑ +26%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.61 ↑ +30%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $16.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $16.00 ↑ +33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $17.04 ↑ +42%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $19.25 ↑ +60%
Independent Health Commercial $19.25 ↑ +60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $22.35 ↑ +86%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $35.76 ↑ +198%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $72.51 ↑ +504%

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Vaccine influenza quadrivalent (iiv4) preservative free 0.5ml dose im at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $12.00 $7.91 – $17.04
UPMC Bedford Everett $12.00 $5.00 – $39.69
UPMC East Monroeville $12.00 $2.39 – $17.04
UPMC Northwest Seneca $12.00 $11.00 – $37.15
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $12.00 $10.50 – $36.48
UPMC Jameson New Castle $12.00 $11.00 – $27.25
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $12.00 $11.00 – $27.25
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $12.00 $11.00 – $27.25

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