Aluminum - quest at UPMC Bedford

10455 Lincoln Highway, Everett, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1295724193

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$316.20

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.

$527.00

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.

$9.19 with Aetna of PA vs $474.30 with Humana — 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
Aetna of PA Medicare $9.19 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $21.97 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $25.18 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $25.48 ↓ -92%
Aetna Medicare $26.24 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $26.30 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $27.26 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $27.52 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $27.52 ↓ -91%
Cigna Medicare $27.52 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $27.52 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $35.22 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $36.98 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $37.47 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $38.74 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $40.50 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicaid $44.02 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $48.95 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $52.23 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $54.98 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $60.02 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $134.34 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $136.55 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $168.21 ↓ -47%
Aetna EBR ASO $210.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $210.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $210.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $258.23 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $289.85 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $326.74 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $335.70 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $342.55 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $342.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $342.55 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $342.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $342.55 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $368.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $421.60 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $474.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $474.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $474.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $474.30 ↑ +50%

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