Creatine kinase at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$41.40

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.

$69.00

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.

$2.35 with Aetna of PA vs $62.10 with Health Coalition Partners — 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 $2.35 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $5.61 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.44 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $6.51 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicare $6.71 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $6.72 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.97 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.03 ↓ -83%
Cigna Medicare $7.03 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.03 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.03 ↓ -83%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $7.19 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $7.55 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.91 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $8.27 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicaid $8.99 ↓ -78%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.99 ↓ -76%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.66 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.22 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $11.92 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.25 ↓ -70%
Cigna Commercial $27.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $27.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $27.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $33.81 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $35.16 ↓ -15%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $37.95 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $42.73 ↑ +3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $42.78 ↑ +3%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $43.31 ↑ +5%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $43.95 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $44.85 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $44.85 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $44.85 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $44.85 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $44.85 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $48.30 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $55.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $62.10 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $62.10 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $62.10 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $62.10 ↑ +50%

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Creatine kinase at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $103.20 $6.44 – $137.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $33.00 $6.44 – $46.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $48.00 $4.23 – $64.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $33.00 $6.44 – $42.73
UPMC East Monroeville $97.20 $6.44 – $129.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $211.80 $6.44 – $12.68
UPMC Northwest Seneca $40.80 $5.90 – $8.27
UPMC Hanover Hanover $33.00 $6.44 – $10.42

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