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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at UPMC Hamot
201 State Street, Erie, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1487647590
$1,495.80
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.
$2,493.00
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.
$155.12 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,994.40 with InterGroup — 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $155.12 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $162.17 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $169.22 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $196.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $209.13 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $212.66 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $220.15 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $240.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $340.18 | ↓ -77% |
| Univera | Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 | $373.95 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $396.39 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $439.31 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Commercial | $571.02 | ↓ -62% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $603.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $615.38 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $615.86 | ↓ -59% |
| Wellcare | Medicare Advantage | $621.41 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $623.25 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS of Western NY | Medicare Advantage | $633.48 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $645.54 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $651.51 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $651.57 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $651.57 | ↓ -56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $651.57 | ↓ -56% |
| Independent Health | Medicare Advantage | $714.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $747.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $747.90 | ↓ -50% |
| Univera | Commercial | $822.69 | ↓ -45% |
| Independent Health | Commercial | $860.91 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | EBR | $997.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $997.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,027.93 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,133.07 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | Health Coalition Partners/PPO | $1,620.45 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,644.67 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | AXA/MMO | $1,745.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,745.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) | $1,994.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Beech Street | $1,994.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,759.20 | $155.12 – $2,345.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,111.40 | $155.12 – $2,991.15 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,311.20 | $48.09 – $839.22 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,464.00 | $98.14 – $1,952.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,876.20 | $148.07 – $2,814.30 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $837.00 | $148.07 – $1,116.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,311.20 | $70.20 – $879.76 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,311.20 | $66.69 – $838.06 |