Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$100.20

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.

$167.00

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.

$6.09 with Aetna of PA vs $152.97 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.

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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 $6.09 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $14.55 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.67 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $16.87 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $17.38 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $17.41 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $18.05 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $18.22 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $18.22 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $18.22 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.22 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $38.15 ↓ -62%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $66.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $66.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $81.83 ↓ -18%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $91.85 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $91.85 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $91.85 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $103.54 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $106.38 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $108.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $108.55 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $108.55 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $108.55 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $108.55 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $116.90 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $124.18 ↑ +24%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $133.60 ↑ +33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $136.81 ↑ +37%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $150.30 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $150.30 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $150.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $150.30 ↑ +50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $152.97 ↑ +53%

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Mayo carnitine total and free quantitative each specimen plasma at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $222.60 $16.67 – $296.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $85.80 $9.28 – $121.55
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $85.80 $13.48 – $136.81
UPMC East Monroeville $345.00 $16.67 – $460.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $337.20 $16.67 – $44.78
UPMC Northwest Seneca $276.00 $15.30 – $18.22
UPMC Hanover Hanover $85.80 $13.48 – $136.81
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $149.40 $15.10 – $31.66

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