Decompression of tibia nerve at UPMC Bedford
10455 Lincoln Highway, Everett, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1295724193
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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.
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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.
$306.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,522.02 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $306.60 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $321.20 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $335.80 | — |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $365.00 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $405.85 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $433.04 | — |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $440.34 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $455.84 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $497.63 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $671.71 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,251.46 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,605.56 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,792.37 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,861.73 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,917.58 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,921.68 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,992.05 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,010.48 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,010.67 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,010.67 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,010.67 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,859.00 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,249.68 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $3,522.02 | — |
| Tricare | TRICARE | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Decompression of tibia nerve at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $733.20 | $306.60 – $1,470.59 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $292.00 – $2,010.67 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $370.84 – $2,988.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $394.20 – $5,805.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $321.20 – $2,047.90 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $321.20 – $2,707.75 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | not published | $321.20 – $2,203.36 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | not published | $370.84 – $3,000.90 |