Whfo nontorsion joint prefab at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$537.00
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.
$895.00
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.
$134.25 with Univera vs $1,293.02 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $134.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $143.20 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $170.05 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $223.75 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $233.39 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $267.44 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $268.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $268.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $295.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Univera | Commercial | $295.35 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $313.25 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $329.36 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | EBR | $358.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $358.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $358.00 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $406.78 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $447.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $492.25 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $581.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $626.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $626.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $716.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $716.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $808.15 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,293.02 | ↑ +141% |
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Whfo nontorsion joint prefab at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $159.00 | $50.35 – $804.83 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $585.60 | $180.12 – $853.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $670.80 | $212.42 – $894.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $201.60 | $16.72 – $804.83 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $547.20 | $233.39 – $973.92 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $339.60 | $233.39 – $804.83 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $106.20 | $96.81 – $804.83 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $165.60 | $106.49 – $804.83 |