Application of paste boot 29580 at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$897.00

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.

$1,495.00

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.

$54.28 with Aetna of PA vs $1,345.50 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 $54.28 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $88.00 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $129.73 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $150.43 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $154.94 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $155.27 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $160.96 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $162.45 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $162.46 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $162.46 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $162.46 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $230.36 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $360.83 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $417.65 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $444.51 ↓ -50%
Aetna EBR ASO $598.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $598.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $598.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $732.55 ↓ -18%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $822.25 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $822.25 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $822.25 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $926.90 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $952.32 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $971.75 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $971.75 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $971.75 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $971.75 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $971.75 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,046.50 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,196.00 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1,345.50 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $1,345.50 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $1,345.50 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,345.50 ↑ +50%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital

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