Metoprolol tartrate 5 mg/5 ml intravenous (wrapper) at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$0.60

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.

$1.00

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.

$0.08 with UPMC Health Plan vs $0.90 with Private Health Care Systems — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.08 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.12 ↓ -80%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.12 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.12 ↓ -80%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.12 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.15 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $0.25 ↓ -58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.29 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.35 ↓ -42%
Cigna EBR $0.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $0.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $0.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $0.49 ↓ -18%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $0.50 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $0.55 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $0.62 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $0.64 ↑ +7%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $0.65 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $0.65 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $0.65 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $0.65 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $0.65 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $0.69 ↑ +15%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $0.69 ↑ +15%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $0.70 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $0.80 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $0.90 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $0.90 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $0.90 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $0.90 ↑ +50%

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Metoprolol tartrate 5 mg/5 ml intravenous (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $0.60 $0.08 – $0.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1.80 $0.12 – $2.55
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1.80 $0.12 – $2.55
UPMC East Monroeville $0.60 $0.08 – $0.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $25.80 $0.08 – $0.12
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1.20 $0.08 – $0.12
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1.80 $0.12 – $0.14
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $8.40 $0.08 – $0.12

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