Assay of osteocalcin at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$508.20

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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.

$847.00

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.

$10.77 with Aetna of PA vs $762.30 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 $10.77 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $25.74 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $29.50 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $29.85 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $30.75 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $30.81 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $31.94 ↓ -94%
Cigna Medicare $32.24 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $32.24 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $32.24 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $32.24 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $41.25 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $43.31 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $45.38 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $47.44 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicaid $51.56 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $57.33 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $61.17 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $64.40 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $67.84 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $70.30 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $225.00 ↓ -56%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $243.26 ↓ -52%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $277.18 ↓ -45%
Aetna EBR ASO $338.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $338.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $338.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $415.03 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $465.85 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $525.14 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $539.54 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $550.55 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $550.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $550.55 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $550.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $550.55 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $592.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $677.60 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $762.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $762.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $762.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $762.30 ↑ +50%

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Assay of osteocalcin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $300.00 $29.50 – $400.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $150.60 $10.10 – $213.35
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $150.60 $29.55 – $243.26
UPMC East Monroeville $627.60 $29.50 – $836.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $274.80 $27.07 – $47.44
UPMC Hanover Hanover $150.60 $10.10 – $56.18
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $299.40 $26.72 – $57.33
UPMC Jameson New Castle $169.20 $29.50 – $82.57

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