Blood smear microscopic w manual differential wbc count at UPMC Bedford

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

$40.80

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.

$68.00

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.

$1.37 with Aetna of PA vs $61.20 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 $1.37 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.75 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $3.28 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.75 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3.80 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $3.91 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $3.92 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.07 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $4.10 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.10 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.10 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.10 ↓ -90%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $4.50 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $4.72 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.95 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $5.17 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicaid $5.62 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.25 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.67 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.02 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.67 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $9.86 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $18.45 ↓ -55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $22.73 ↓ -44%
Aetna EBR ASO $27.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $27.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $27.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $33.32 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $37.40 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $42.16 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $43.32 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $44.20 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $44.20 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $44.20 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $44.20 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $44.20 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $47.60 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $54.40 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $61.20 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $61.20 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $61.20 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $61.20 ↑ +50%

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $34.80 $3.75 – $46.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $13.80 $3.15 – $19.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $27.00 $2.47 – $36.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $20.40 $3.76 – $19.55
UPMC Hamot Erie $60.00 $3.75 – $6.65
UPMC Hanover Hanover $13.80 $3.76 – $6.13
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $29.40 $2.75 – $7.13
UPMC Jameson New Castle $14.40 $3.75 – $6.77

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