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Vasectomy at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
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Cash price 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.
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Gross charge 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.
$163.35 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,879.78 with BCBS of Western NY — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $163.35 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $170.78 | — |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $178.20 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $206.40 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $220.23 | — |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $223.94 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $231.82 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $253.07 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $708.27 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $836.96 | — |
| Fidelis | Child Health Plus/Family Health Plus/Medicaid | $1,634.44 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,754.00 | — |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $2,254.02 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,299.10 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $2,300.90 | — |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $2,321.64 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $2,366.72 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,411.80 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,434.12 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,434.34 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,434.34 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,434.34 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,529.08 | — |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,840.52 | — |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $3,173.88 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,296.78 | — |
| Fidelis | Essential Plan | $3,677.49 | — |
| Molina Healthcare of NY | CHIP (For Kids)/Essential Plan/Medicaid | $3,677.49 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,046.49 | — |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $6,879.78 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Vasectomy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,078.20 | $155.93 – $2,325.85 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $2,741.40 | $163.35 – $3,655.20 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,608.00 | $120.78 – $993.28 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $163.35 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $148.50 – $2,109.25 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $155.93 – $2,109.25 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $200.47 – $5,805.45 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $188.59 – $3,131.10 |