Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$50.60

Cash price

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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.

$63.25

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.

$1.15 with UPMC Health Plan vs $56.70 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.15 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1.39 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1.71 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.83 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1.83 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.83 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.83 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2.21 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.25 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $6.39 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare All Business $6.39 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $15.75 ↓ -69%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $18.30 ↓ -64%
Aetna EBR ASO $25.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna EBR $25.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $25.20 ↓ -50%
Aetna EBR FI $30.87 ↓ -39%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $31.50 ↓ -38%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $39.06 ↓ -23%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $40.13 ↓ -21%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $40.95 ↓ -19%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $40.95 ↓ -19%
Cigna New Business ASO $40.95 ↓ -19%
InterGroup PPO $40.95 ↓ -19%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $44.10 ↓ -13%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $50.40 ↓ -0%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $56.70 ↑ +12%
Humana Commercial $56.70 ↑ +12%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $56.70 ↑ +12%
SelectCare Commercial $56.70 ↑ +12%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Clindamycin 600 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $45.80 $0.50 – $11.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $26.40 $1.34 – $11.20
UPMC East Monroeville $113.60 $0.51 – $51.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $63.80 $0.50 – $5.18
UPMC Northwest Seneca $76.20 $0.74 – $1.83
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $88.00 $0.70 – $2.13
UPMC Jameson New Castle $51.60 $0.51 – $1.85
UPMC Kane Kane $5.40 $1.34 – $3.51

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