X-ray skull < 4 views at UPMC Bedford

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

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

$125.40

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.

$209.00

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.

$33.38 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $188.10 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $33.38 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $34.97 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $36.56 ↓ -71%
Aetna of PA Medicare $36.58 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicaid $39.74 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $43.13 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $44.18 ↓ -65%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $47.14 ↓ -62%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $47.94 ↓ -62%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $49.63 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $54.18 ↓ -57%
Cigna EBR $83.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $83.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $83.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $84.88 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $87.43 ↓ -30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $101.38 ↓ -19%
Aetna EBR FI $102.41 ↓ -18%
Aetna Medicare $104.42 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $104.64 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Medicare $108.48 ↓ -13%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $109.48 ↓ -13%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.49 ↓ -13%
Cigna Medicare $109.49 ↓ -13%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $109.49 ↓ -13%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $114.95 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $128.56 ↑ +3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $129.58 ↑ +3%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $133.13 ↑ +6%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $135.85 ↑ +8%
InterGroup PPO $135.85 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare All Business $135.85 ↑ +8%
Cigna New Business ASO $135.85 ↑ +8%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $135.85 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $146.30 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $154.67 ↑ +23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $158.37 ↑ +26%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $167.20 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $188.10 ↑ +50%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $188.10 ↑ +50%
Humana Commercial $188.10 ↑ +50%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $188.10 ↑ +50%
Tricare TRICARE not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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X-ray skull < 4 views at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $219.60 $21.00 – $292.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $262.80 $27.51 – $372.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $180.60 $33.00 – $240.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $262.80 $27.51 – $372.30
UPMC East Monroeville $436.20 $34.97 – $581.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $289.80 $28.07 – $166.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $154.80 $34.97 – $106.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $262.80 $27.51 – $162.54

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