Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
169 Martin Ave, Ephrata, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1083615587
$3,730.40
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.
$4,663.00
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.
$122.67 with UPMC_Medicaid vs $3,708.82 with United_Healthcare — 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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| UPMC_Medicaid | All_Plans | $122.67 | ↓ -97% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | All_Other_Plans | $176.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicaid | All_Plans | $176.28 | ↓ -95% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicaid | All_Plans | $176.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger_Medicaid | All_Plans | $176.28 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth_Caritas_Medicaid | All_Plans | $200.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna_Better_Health_Kids | All_Plans | $479.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark_Medicare | All_Plans | $534.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna_Advantra_Medicare | All_Plans | $545.44 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna_Medicare | All_Plans | $545.44 | ↓ -85% |
| United_Medicare | ISNP_DSNP_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Devoted_Medicare | All_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger_Gold_Medicare | All_Plans | $556.03 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Community_HealthChoices | $556.03 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC_Medicare | UPMC_for_Life_Complete_Care | $556.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark_Wholecare_Gateway_Medicare | All_Plans | $558.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth_Medicare | All_Plans | $558.68 | ↓ -85% |
| PA_Health_&_Wellness_Medicare | All_Plans | $571.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Jefferson_Health_Medicare_Advantage | All_Plans | $571.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue_Cross_BlueJourney_Medicare | All_Plans | $692.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Higmark_Healthy_Kids | $822.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Health_Partners_Medicaid | Kidz_Partners | $873.76 | ↓ -77% |
| United_Medicaid | Community_Plan_For_Kids | $926.71 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $1,772.45 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark | My_Direct_Blue | $1,942.71 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark | My_Priority_Blue_Flex | $1,942.71 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark | Performance_Blue | $2,015.52 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark | Choice_Blue_PPO | $2,015.52 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark | Blue_Cross_High_Performance_Network | $2,015.52 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $2,394.41 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark | All_Other_Plans | $2,428.36 | ↓ -35% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $2,517.12 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $2,532.07 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Blue_Performance_PPO | $2,532.07 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $2,556.45 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $2,556.45 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC | Employees_And_Dependents | $2,556.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Independence_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $2,556.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Tower Health | All_Plans | $2,556.45 | ↓ -31% |
| PHC | All_Plans | $2,753.10 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $3,044.14 | ↓ -18% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $3,346.98 | ↓ -10% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $3,708.82 | ↓ -1% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,464.00 | $98.14 – $1,952.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,876.20 | $148.07 – $2,814.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,311.20 | $48.09 – $839.22 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $837.00 | $148.07 – $1,116.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,311.20 | $70.20 – $879.76 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,759.20 | $155.12 – $2,345.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,495.80 | $155.12 – $714.96 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,820.40 | $155.12 – $548.88 |