Sigmoidoscopy w/fb removal 45332 at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$3,232.80

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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$5,388.00

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.

$52.50 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $4,849.20 with Humana — 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 $52.50 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $55.00 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $57.50 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicaid $62.50 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $69.50 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $74.15 ↓ -98%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $75.40 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $78.06 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $85.21 ↓ -97%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $405.42 ↓ -87%
Aetna of PA Medicare $405.58 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $945.64 ↓ -71%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $969.43 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,124.11 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicare $1,157.83 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $1,160.31 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,202.80 ↓ -63%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,213.93 ↓ -62%
Cigna Medicare $1,214.04 ↓ -62%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,214.04 ↓ -62%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,214.04 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,511.46 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,714.50 ↓ -47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $1,861.98 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR ASO $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $2,155.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $2,640.12 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $2,963.40 ↓ -8%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $3,340.56 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $3,432.16 ↑ +6%
Cigna New Business ASO $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $3,502.20 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,771.60 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $4,310.40 ↑ +33%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $4,849.20 ↑ +50%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Sigmoidoscopy w/fb removal 45332 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,466.40 $50.00 – $1,955.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $2,070.00 $55.00 – $1,634.95
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $3,303.00 $55.00 – $1,214.04
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3,073.80 $55.00 – $1,236.52
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,421.00 $55.00 – $1,236.52
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $4,095.60 $55.00 – $1,236.52
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1,885.20 $55.00 – $1,236.52
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $3,933.60 $55.00 – $993.28

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