Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$171.00
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.
$285.00
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.
$29.80 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,753.31 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $42.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $71.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $85.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $85.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $90.04 | ↓ -47% |
| Univera | Commercial | $94.05 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $99.75 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $104.88 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $114.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $114.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $144.06 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $156.75 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $156.75 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $185.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $199.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $199.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $228.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $228.00 | ↑ +33% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $235.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $439.61 | ↑ +157% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $448.40 | ↑ +162% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $448.75 | ↑ +162% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $452.80 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $461.59 | ↑ +170% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $470.38 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $474.73 | ↑ +178% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $474.78 | ↑ +178% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $474.78 | ↑ +178% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $474.78 | ↑ +178% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $2,341.00 | ↑ +1269% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $4,753.31 | ↑ +2680% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Wound therapy negative pressure per session <= 50 sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $253.20 | $29.80 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $197.40 | $82.63 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $211.20 | $77.33 – $77.33 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $262.20 | $72.27 – $411.37 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $262.20 | $30.32 – $476.12 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $176.40 | $30.08 – $418.99 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $178.80 | $30.08 – $418.99 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $123.60 | $29.80 – $418.99 |