Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,483.80
Cash price 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.
$2,473.00
Gross charge 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.
$432.45 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,416.31 with UPMC Health Plan — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $432.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,236.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,236.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,236.50 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,267.66 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,310.69 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,360.15 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,360.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $1,360.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,978.40 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,217.60 | ↑ +49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,416.31 | ↑ +63% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,876.20 | $271.77 – $2,814.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,457.00 | $415.68 – $3,480.75 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,457.00 | $92.00 – $2,217.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,521.80 | $436.57 – $3,362.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,495.80 | $432.45 – $1,010.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,820.40 | $683.10 – $813.49 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,457.00 | $591.94 – $2,217.60 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,406.60 | $674.37 – $1,048.86 |