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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$58.80

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$98.00

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.

$3.05 with Aetna of PA vs $88.20 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
Aetna of PA Medicare $3.05 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $7.30 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.36 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $8.46 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $8.71 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $8.73 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.05 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $9.14 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $9.14 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.14 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.14 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.36 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $9.83 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.30 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $10.76 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicaid $11.70 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $13.01 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $13.88 ↓ -76%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $14.61 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $15.32 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $15.95 ↓ -73%
Cigna EBR $39.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $39.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $39.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $48.02 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $53.90 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $54.94 ↓ -7%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $60.76 ↑ +3%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $62.32 ↑ +6%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $62.43 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $63.70 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $63.70 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $63.70 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $63.70 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $63.70 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $68.60 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $76.77 ↑ +31%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $78.40 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $88.20 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $88.20 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $88.20 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $88.20 ↑ +50%

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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $175.20 $8.36 – $233.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $202.80 $7.86 – $271.15
UPMC Hamot Erie $534.60 $8.36 – $623.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $55.20 $8.38 – $78.20
UPMC Altoona Altoona $108.60 $8.36 – $144.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $81.60 $5.50 – $108.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $55.20 $8.38 – $65.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $55.20 $8.38 – $80.04

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