Warde cadmium blood 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

$158.40

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.

$264.00

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.

$19.00 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $211.20 with Multiplan — 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $19.00 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.90 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $21.85 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicaid $22.80 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $23.36 ↓ -85%
Fidelis Medicare $23.64 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $24.11 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $24.13 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $24.35 ↓ -85%
Independent Health Commercial $24.35 ↓ -85%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $24.35 ↓ -85%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $24.82 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $25.29 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $25.53 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $25.53 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $25.53 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $25.53 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $26.41 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $28.18 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Commercial $31.81 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $32.38 ↓ -80%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $32.39 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $36.41 ↓ -77%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $39.60 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $56.24 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $66.00 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $79.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $79.20 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $87.12 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $105.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $105.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $110.03 ↓ -31%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $171.60 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $176.05 ↑ +11%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $184.80 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $184.80 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $211.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $211.20 ↑ +33%

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Warde cadmium blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $235.20 $19.00 – $313.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $80.40 $8.53 – $120.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $119.40 $7.64 – $169.15
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $119.40 $19.00 – $169.15
UPMC East Monroeville $282.60 $19.00 – $376.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $124.20 $20.90 – $25.53
UPMC Hanover Hanover $119.40 $7.64 – $37.82
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $200.40 $19.00 – $44.36

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