Phosphorus 24 hour urine at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$27.00

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.

$45.00

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.

$2.09 with Aetna of PA vs $40.50 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
Aetna of PA Medicare $2.09 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.98 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.71 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5.78 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare $5.95 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $5.97 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.18 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.24 ↓ -77%
Cigna Medicare $6.24 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.24 ↓ -77%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.24 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $7.15 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $7.51 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.87 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $8.22 ↓ -70%
Aetna Medicaid $8.94 ↓ -67%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.94 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10.24 ↓ -62%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.60 ↓ -61%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.16 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.19 ↓ -55%
Aetna EBR ASO $18.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $18.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $18.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $22.05 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $24.75 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $27.73 ↑ +3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $27.90 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $28.66 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $29.25 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $29.25 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $29.25 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $29.25 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $29.25 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $31.50 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $34.16 ↑ +27%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $36.00 ↑ +33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $36.74 ↑ +36%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $40.50 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $40.50 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $40.50 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $40.50 ↑ +50%

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Phosphorus 24 hour urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $30.60 $5.71 – $40.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $29.40 $5.72 – $41.65
UPMC Cole Coudersport $40.80 $3.76 – $54.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $29.40 $5.72 – $36.74
UPMC East Monroeville $76.20 $5.71 – $101.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $104.40 $5.71 – $10.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $45.00 $5.24 – $8.22
UPMC Hanover Hanover $29.40 $5.72 – $9.74

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