Injection epidural blood patch or clot at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$3,754.80

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.

$6,258.00

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.

$50.40 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $5,632.20 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $50.40 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $52.80 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $55.20 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicaid $60.00 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $66.72 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $71.18 ↓ -98%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $72.38 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $74.93 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $81.80 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $238.21 ↓ -94%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $298.84 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $569.38 ↓ -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 $660.23 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $680.04 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $681.49 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $706.45 ↓ -81%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $712.98 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $713.05 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $713.05 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $713.05 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $954.44 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,511.46 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,730.46 ↓ -54%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1,861.98 ↓ -50%
Cigna EBR $2,503.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,503.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,503.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $3,066.42 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $3,441.90 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $3,879.96 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $3,986.35 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $4,067.70 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $4,067.70 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $4,067.70 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $4,067.70 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $4,067.70 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $4,380.60 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $5,006.40 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $5,632.20 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $5,632.20 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $5,632.20 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $5,632.20 ↑ +50%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Injection epidural blood patch or clot at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,180.80 $48.00 – $1,574.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,192.80 $60.96 – $1,689.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,266.00 $50.40 – $771.51
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,192.80 $60.96 – $1,730.46
UPMC East Monroeville $2,281.20 $52.80 – $3,041.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $2,334.00 $52.80 – $960.26
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,156.80 $52.80 – $693.24
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,192.80 $60.96 – $1,058.50

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