Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at UPMC Bedford
10455 Lincoln Highway, Everett, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1295724193
$1,632.60
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.
$2,721.00
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.
$212.67 with Aetna of PA vs $2,448.90 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.
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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| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $212.67 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $508.33 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $589.44 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $607.12 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $608.42 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $630.70 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $636.54 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $636.60 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $636.60 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $636.60 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $747.60 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $821.09 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $1,011.51 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,080.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,088.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,088.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,088.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,333.29 | ↓ -18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,461.32 | ↓ -10% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,496.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,496.55 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,496.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,687.02 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,733.28 | ↑ +6% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,768.65 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,768.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,768.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,768.65 | ↑ +8% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,768.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,904.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,176.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $2,448.90 | ↑ +50% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,448.90 | ↑ +50% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,448.90 | ↑ +50% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,448.90 | ↑ +50% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | TRICARE | not published by hospital | — |
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Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,823.40 | $296.09 – $2,431.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,861.20 | $325.29 – $2,636.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $810.60 | $63.76 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,861.20 | $602.09 – $2,636.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,164.60 | $298.91 – $1,552.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,507.80 | $296.09 – $857.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,611.00 | $534.56 – $747.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,861.20 | $584.71 – $1,461.32 |