Colonoscopy for foreign body at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$3,232.80

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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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$5,388.00

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.

$203.46 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,849.20 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

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 $203.46 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $213.15 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $222.84 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicaid $242.21 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $269.32 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $287.36 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $292.21 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $302.49 ↓ -91%
Aetna of PA Medicare $313.61 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $330.22 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $569.41 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $749.61 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $869.21 ↓ -73%
Aetna Medicare $895.29 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $897.20 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare $930.05 ↓ -71%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $938.66 ↓ -71%
Cigna Medicare $938.75 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $938.75 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $938.75 ↓ -71%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $945.11 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,511.46 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,713.54 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1,861.98 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $2,640.12 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $2,963.40 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $3,340.56 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $3,432.16 ↑ +6%
Cigna New Business ASO $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,771.60 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $4,310.40 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Colonoscopy for foreign body at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $3,435.60 $193.77 – $4,580.80
UPMC Jameson New Castle $3,315.00 $213.15 – $1,173.43
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,507.20 $213.15 – $956.13
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $3,232.80 $213.15 – $956.13
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $3,933.60 $213.15 – $569.41

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