Thyroglobulin antibody at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$106.20

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.

$177.00

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.

$5.74 with Aetna of PA vs $159.30 with Health Coalition Partners — 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 $5.74 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.72 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $15.73 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $15.91 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $16.39 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $16.42 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.02 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $17.18 ↓ -84%
Cigna Medicare $17.18 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $17.18 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.18 ↓ -84%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.45 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $19.37 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.30 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.99 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $21.22 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicaid $23.06 ↓ -78%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $25.64 ↓ -76%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.36 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $28.80 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.44 ↓ -70%
Cigna Commercial $70.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $70.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $70.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $75.26 ↓ -29%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $80.72 ↓ -24%
Aetna EBR FI $86.73 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $97.35 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $99.44 ↓ -6%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $109.74 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $112.75 ↑ +6%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $115.05 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $115.05 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $115.05 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $115.05 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $115.05 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $123.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $141.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $159.30 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $159.30 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $159.30 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $159.30 ↑ +50%

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Thyroglobulin antibody at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $126.00 $15.73 – $168.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $88.80 $15.75 – $125.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $132.60 $10.34 – $176.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $88.80 $15.75 – $125.80
UPMC East Monroeville $225.60 $15.73 – $300.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $193.20 $15.73 – $29.11
UPMC Northwest Seneca $223.20 $14.43 – $21.22
UPMC Hanover Hanover $88.80 $15.75 – $25.46

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