Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at UPMC Bedford

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

$66.60

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.

$111.00

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.

$4.89 with Aetna of PA vs $99.90 with SelectCare — 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 $4.89 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $11.68 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.38 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $13.54 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $13.95 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $13.98 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.49 ↓ -78%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.62 ↓ -78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.62 ↓ -78%
Cigna Medicare $14.62 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.62 ↓ -78%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.72 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $18.85 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $19.66 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.59 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $21.53 ↓ -68%
Aetna Medicaid $23.40 ↓ -65%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $26.02 ↓ -61%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.76 ↓ -58%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.22 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.90 ↓ -52%
Aetna EBR ASO $44.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $44.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $44.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR FI $54.39 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $61.05 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $67.59 ↑ +1%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $68.82 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $70.71 ↑ +6%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $71.96 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $72.15 ↑ +8%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $72.15 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $72.15 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $72.15 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $72.15 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $77.70 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $88.65 ↑ +33%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $88.80 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $99.90 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $99.90 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $99.90 ↑ +50%
SelectCare Commercial $99.90 ↑ +50%

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Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $122.40 $13.38 – $163.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $97.20 $13.40 – $137.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $93.00 $8.80 – $124.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $97.20 $13.40 – $137.70
UPMC East Monroeville $201.00 $13.38 – $268.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $357.00 $13.38 – $26.02
UPMC Northwest Seneca $102.00 $12.28 – $21.53
UPMC Hanover Hanover $97.20 $13.40 – $25.50

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