Hemoglobin at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$16.20

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.

$27.00

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.

$0.86 with Aetna of PA vs $24.30 with Humana — 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 $0.86 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $2.04 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $2.35 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $2.37 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $2.44 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $2.45 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $2.54 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $2.56 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $2.56 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $2.56 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $2.56 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $3.23 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $3.39 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.55 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $3.71 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicaid $4.04 ↓ -75%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.49 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.79 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.04 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.31 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $5.50 ↓ -66%
Cigna Commercial $10.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $10.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $10.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $12.63 ↓ -22%
Aetna EBR FI $13.23 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $14.85 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $15.56 ↓ -4%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $16.74 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $17.20 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $17.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $17.55 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $17.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $17.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $17.55 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $18.90 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $19.04 ↑ +18%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $21.60 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $24.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $24.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $24.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $24.30 ↑ +50%

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Hemoglobin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $27.60 $2.35 – $35.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $12.60 $2.35 – $17.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $19.20 $1.54 – $24.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $12.60 $2.35 – $19.04
UPMC East Monroeville $34.80 $2.35 – $46.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $55.20 $2.35 – $4.55
UPMC Northwest Seneca $24.00 $2.15 – $3.71
UPMC Hanover Hanover $12.60 $2.35 – $4.40

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