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Vitamin D Test 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

$501.00

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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.

$835.00

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.

$29.26 with UPMC Work Partners vs $668.00 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $29.26 ↓ -94%
Fidelis Medicare $29.60 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $30.19 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $30.22 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $30.49 ↓ -94%
Independent Health Commercial $30.49 ↓ -94%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $30.49 ↓ -94%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $31.08 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $31.67 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $31.97 ↓ -94%
Cigna Medicare $31.97 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $31.97 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $31.97 ↓ -94%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $40.55 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $40.70 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $40.91 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $45.00 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $47.05 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicaid $49.09 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $56.86 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $57.21 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $60.67 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $63.86 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $69.72 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $87.00 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $125.25 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $172.89 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial $208.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $250.50 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $250.50 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $275.55 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $276.61 ↓ -45%
Cigna EBR $334.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $334.00 ↓ -33%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $542.75 ↑ +8%
Aetna AXA/MMO $584.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $584.50 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $668.00 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $668.00 ↑ +33%

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Vitamin D Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $441.60 $29.26 – $588.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $532.20 $3.06 – $57.76
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $149.40 $29.30 – $211.65
UPMC Altoona Altoona $271.80 $29.26 – $362.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $141.00 $10.68 – $211.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $147.00 $19.24 – $196.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $149.40 $29.30 – $184.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $149.40 $29.30 – $216.63

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