Repair nasal septum defect 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.

$478.80 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $5,573.36 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 $478.80 —
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $501.60 —
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $524.40 —
Aetna Medicaid $570.00 —
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $633.79 —
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $676.25 —
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $687.65 —
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $711.86 —
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $777.12 —
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,115.55 —
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,416.54 —
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $2,666.44 —
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,850.35 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3,091.88 —
Aetna Medicare $3,184.64 —
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $3,191.44 —
United Healthcare Medicare $3,308.31 —
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $3,338.92 —
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3,339.23 —
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $3,339.23 —
Cigna Medicare $3,339.23 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $4,524.18 —
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5,167.85 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $5,573.36 —
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Repair nasal septum defect at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $480.22 $478.80 – $10,351.98
GROVE CITY HOSPITAL GROVE CITY $424.81 $54.73 – $8,883.72
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,114.20 $478.80 – $2,325.85
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $456.00 – $3,339.23
UPMC Memorial York not published $579.12 – $4,975.65

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