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Chest X-ray (single view) at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$100.20

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.

$167.00

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.

$16.25 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $150.30 with SelectCare — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $16.25 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $17.03 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $17.80 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $17.84 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicaid $19.35 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $21.52 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $21.97 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $22.96 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $23.34 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $24.17 ↓ -76%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $24.73 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $26.38 ↓ -74%
Aetna of PA Medicare $30.29 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $31.80 ↓ -68%
Cigna EBR $66.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $66.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $72.40 ↓ -28%
Aetna EBR FI $81.83 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $83.95 ↓ -16%
Aetna Medicare $86.47 ↓ -14%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $86.65 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Medicare $89.83 ↓ -10%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $90.66 ↓ -10%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $90.67 ↓ -10%
Cigna Medicare $90.67 ↓ -10%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $90.67 ↓ -10%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $91.85 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $103.54 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $106.38 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $108.55 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $108.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $108.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $108.55 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $108.55 ↑ +8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $114.02 ↑ +14%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $116.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $133.60 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $150.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $150.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $150.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $150.30 ↑ +50%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Chest X-ray (single view) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $436.20 $6.49 – $581.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $419.40 $6.49 – $594.15
UPMC Hamot Erie $487.80 $6.43 – $569.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $188.40 $4.66 – $134.77
UPMC Altoona Altoona $83.40 $6.43 – $111.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $102.60 $16.25 – $136.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $188.40 $6.80 – $114.02
UPMC Hanover Hanover $188.40 $6.46 – $134.58

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