X-ray abdomen 2 views at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$257.40
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.
$429.00
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.
$13.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $343.20 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.
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 | $13.05 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $24.40 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $28.40 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $29.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $30.98 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $35.89 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $38.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.94 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $39.43 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $40.31 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $41.25 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $44.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $63.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $64.35 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $107.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $117.01 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $119.35 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $119.44 | ↓ -54% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $120.52 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $122.86 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $125.20 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $126.36 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $126.37 | ↓ -51% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $126.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $126.37 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $128.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $128.70 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $141.57 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $166.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $171.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $171.60 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $194.98 | ↓ -24% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $221.61 | ↓ -14% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $230.90 | ↓ -10% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $278.85 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $300.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $300.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $343.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $343.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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X-ray abdomen 2 views at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $273.60 | $13.05 – $364.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $149.40 | $27.11 – $224.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $262.80 | $21.59 – $372.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $110.40 | $27.11 – $147.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $262.80 | $9.20 – $462.39 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $436.20 | $13.17 – $581.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $186.00 | $28.40 – $106.45 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $262.80 | $21.59 – $162.54 |