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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$502.20

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.

$837.00

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.

$107.53 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $753.30 with SelectCare — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $107.53 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $112.65 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $117.77 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicaid $128.01 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $142.34 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $151.87 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $154.43 ↓ -69%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $159.87 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $160.05 ↓ -68%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $174.53 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $197.17 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $209.25 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $221.95 ↓ -56%
Cigna EBR $334.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $334.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $334.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $364.39 ↓ -27%
Aetna EBR FI $410.13 ↓ -18%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $418.50 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $460.35 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $518.94 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $533.17 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $544.05 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $544.05 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $544.05 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $544.05 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $544.05 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $585.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $669.60 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $753.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $753.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $753.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $753.30 ↑ +50%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Diagnostic Mammogram (one breast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $336.60 $58.27 – $448.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $427.20 $58.27 – $605.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $478.80 $57.72 – $558.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $243.60 $19.45 – $479.38
UPMC Altoona Altoona $475.80 $57.72 – $634.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $360.00 $107.53 – $480.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $349.80 $28.40 – $364.39
UPMC Hanover Hanover $243.60 $26.98 – $479.38

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