Culture anaerobic except blood at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$66.60

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.

$111.00

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.

$3.42 with Aetna of PA vs $99.90 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 $3.42 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.17 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.36 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $9.47 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $9.75 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $9.77 ↓ -85%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.00 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $10.13 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $10.23 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $10.23 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.23 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $10.23 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $10.50 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $11.00 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $11.50 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicaid $12.50 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.90 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $14.83 ↓ -78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $15.61 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $16.46 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $17.04 ↓ -74%
Cigna Commercial $44.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $44.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $44.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $50.72 ↓ -24%
Aetna EBR FI $54.39 ↓ -18%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $59.02 ↓ -11%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $61.05 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $62.48 ↓ -6%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $68.82 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $70.71 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $72.15 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $72.15 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $72.15 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $72.15 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $72.15 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $77.70 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $88.80 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $99.90 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $99.90 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $99.90 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $99.90 ↑ +50%

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Culture anaerobic except blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $292.20 $9.36 – $389.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $52.80 $9.38 – $74.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $52.80 $9.38 – $74.80
UPMC East Monroeville $141.00 $9.36 – $188.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $111.60 $9.36 – $18.29
UPMC Northwest Seneca $105.00 $8.59 – $11.50
UPMC Hanover Hanover $52.80 $9.38 – $15.15
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $62.40 $8.48 – $17.77

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