Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$133.20

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.

$222.00

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.

$26.98 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $203.97 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 $26.98 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $28.27 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $29.55 ↓ -78%
Aetna Medicaid $32.12 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $35.72 ↓ -73%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $38.11 ↓ -71%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $38.76 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $40.12 ↓ -70%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $43.80 ↓ -67%
Aetna of PA Medicare $44.34 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $51.26 ↓ -62%
Cigna Commercial $88.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $88.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $88.80 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $98.00 ↓ -26%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $105.98 ↓ -20%
Aetna EBR FI $108.78 ↓ -18%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $118.72 ↓ -11%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $122.10 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $122.89 ↓ -8%
Aetna Medicare $126.58 ↓ -5%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $126.85 ↓ -5%
United Healthcare Medicare $131.49 ↓ -1%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $132.71 ↓ -0%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $132.72 ↓ -0%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $132.72 ↓ -0%
Cigna Medicare $132.72 ↓ -0%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $137.64 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $141.41 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $144.30 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $144.30 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $144.30 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $144.30 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $144.30 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $155.40 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $165.57 ↑ +24%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $177.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $199.80 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $199.80 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $199.80 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $199.80 ↑ +50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $203.97 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital

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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $110.40 $25.70 – $147.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $273.00 $32.64 – $386.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $133.20 $26.98 – $177.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $273.00 $32.64 – $220.15
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UPMC Hanover Hanover $273.00 $32.64 – $197.02

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