Cystoscopy & ureter catheter at UPMC Bedford
10455 Lincoln Highway, Everett, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1295724193
$5,026.80
Cash price 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.
$8,378.00
Gross charge 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.
$121.80 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $7,540.20 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $121.80 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $127.60 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $133.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $145.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $161.23 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $172.03 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $174.93 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $181.09 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $197.69 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $430.97 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $704.65 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,276.84 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,684.28 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,953.01 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,011.60 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,015.90 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,023.84 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,089.72 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.06 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,109.25 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,314.98 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $2,493.18 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | EBR | $3,351.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,351.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,351.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,105.22 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $4,607.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5,194.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,336.79 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,445.70 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $5,445.70 | ↑ +8% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,445.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,445.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,445.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,864.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,702.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7,540.20 | ↑ +50% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $7,540.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,540.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $7,540.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | TRICARE | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,494.00 | $116.00 – $5,992.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $355.80 | $121.80 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6,144.60 | $134.40 – $2,314.98 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $4,147.80 | $127.60 – $5,530.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,942.60 | $127.60 – $2,840.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,281.00 | $127.60 – $2,050.66 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,178.80 | $127.60 – $2,109.25 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,688.80 | $127.60 – $2,636.56 |