Metronidazole 500 mg/100 ml in sodium chlor(iso) intravenous piggyback at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$3.60

Cash price

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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.

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.

$4.50

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.

$0.02 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3.60 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.02 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.03 ↓ -99%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.03 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.03 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.03 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.03 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.03 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $0.05 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $0.06 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare All Business $0.09 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $0.09 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $1.00 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.16 ↓ -68%
Aetna EBR ASO $1.60 ↓ -56%
Cigna EBR $1.60 ↓ -56%
Cigna Commercial $1.60 ↓ -56%
Aetna EBR FI $1.96 ↓ -46%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $2.00 ↓ -44%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $2.48 ↓ -31%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2.55 ↓ -29%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $2.60 ↓ -28%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2.60 ↓ -28%
Cigna New Business ASO $2.60 ↓ -28%
InterGroup PPO $2.60 ↓ -28%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2.80 ↓ -22%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $3.20 ↓ -11%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $3.60 ↑ +0%
Humana Commercial $3.60 ↑ +0%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $3.60 ↑ +0%
SelectCare Commercial $3.60 ↑ +0%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Metronidazole 500 mg/100 ml in sodium chlor(iso) intravenous piggyback at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1.60 $0.02 – $1.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $6.60 $0.03 – $8.80
UPMC East Monroeville $7.20 $0.02 – $7.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $8.00 $0.02 – $0.05
UPMC Northwest Seneca $4.80 $0.02 – $0.05
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $4.20 $0.02 – $0.05
UPMC Jameson New Castle $1.60 $0.02 – $0.03
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $3.15 $0.02 – $0.03

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