Repair ing hernia sliding at UPMC Bedford

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

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

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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.

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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.

$333.38 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,633.70 with AmeriHealth Caritas — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $333.38
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $349.25
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $365.12
Aetna Medicaid $396.88
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $441.29
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $470.85
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $478.79
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $495.65
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $541.08
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,213.93
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,214.59
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,802.16
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $2,859.00
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $2,901.58
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3,267.43
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3,364.54
Aetna Medicare $3,465.48
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $3,472.88
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $3,522.02
United Healthcare Medicare $3,600.06
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $3,633.37
Cigna Medicare $3,633.70
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3,633.70
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $3,633.70
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Repair ing hernia sliding at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,068.60 $333.38 – $1,470.59
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,504.20 $428.62 – $7,348.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,504.20 $545.38 – $588.96
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $2,078.50 $3,470.33 – $8,085.87
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $317.50 – $3,633.70
UPMC East Monroeville not published $349.25 – $3,700.99
UPMC Hamot Erie not published $349.25 – $4,893.48
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $349.25 – $3,532.77

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