Cytopath smear other source 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.

$8.42 with Aetna of PA vs $72.74 with UPMC Work 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 $8.42 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.34 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $12.50 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $13.12 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.75 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $14.38 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicaid $15.62 ↓ -62%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $17.37 ↓ -58%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $18.54 ↓ -55%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $19.51 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $20.14 ↓ -51%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $21.30 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $23.35 ↓ -44%
Aetna Medicare $24.05 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $24.10 ↓ -42%
United Healthcare Medicare $24.98 ↓ -40%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $25.22 ↓ -39%
Cigna Medicare $25.22 ↓ -39%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $25.22 ↓ -39%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $25.22 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $26.19 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $27.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $27.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $27.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $32.26 ↓ -22%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $33.49 ↓ -19%
Aetna EBR FI $33.81 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $37.95 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $42.78 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $43.95 ↑ +6%
Aetna 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%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $44.85 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $48.30 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $55.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $62.10 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $62.10 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $62.10 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $62.10 ↑ +50%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $72.74 ↑ +76%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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