Fetal hemoglobin (kleihauer betke) at UPMC Bedford

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

$58.20

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.

$97.00

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.

$2.79 with Aetna of PA vs $87.30 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 $2.79 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $6.67 ↓ -89%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.64 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $7.73 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $7.96 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $7.98 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $8.27 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.35 ↓ -86%
Cigna Medicare $8.35 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.35 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.35 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.69 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $11.22 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $11.76 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $12.29 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicaid $13.36 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $14.84 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $14.86 ↓ -74%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $15.85 ↓ -73%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.69 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $18.22 ↓ -69%
Cigna Commercial $38.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $38.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $38.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $47.53 ↓ -18%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $53.20 ↓ -9%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $53.35 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $58.35 ↑ +0%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $60.14 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $61.79 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $63.05 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $63.05 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $63.05 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $63.05 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $63.05 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $67.90 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $71.88 ↑ +24%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $77.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $87.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $87.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $87.30 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $87.30 ↑ +50%

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Fetal hemoglobin (kleihauer betke) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $356.40 $7.64 – $475.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $40.20 $7.65 – $56.95
UPMC Cole Coudersport $77.40 $5.02 – $103.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $40.20 $7.65 – $56.95
UPMC Hamot Erie $114.60 $7.64 – $21.04
UPMC Northwest Seneca $121.20 $7.01 – $12.29
UPMC Hanover Hanover $40.20 $7.65 – $14.56
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $240.00 $6.92 – $14.86

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