Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at UPMC Hanover

300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$2,457.00

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.

$4,095.00

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.

$591.94 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,562.65 with Wellspan Population Health — 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 PA Medicaid $591.94 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $747.19 ↓ -70%
Humana Medicare $754.74 ↓ -69%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $778.05 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $778.05 ↓ -68%
Aetna Medicare $787.19 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Medicare $792.48 ↓ -68%
Cigna Medicare $792.48 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Medicare $807.57 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $815.12 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $990.99 ↓ -60%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $1,207.58 ↓ -51%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,907.00 ↓ -22%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,217.60 ↓ -10%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $2,252.25 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2,252.25 ↓ -8%
Aetna ACO $2,325.96 ↓ -5%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $2,503.77 ↑ +2%
Geisinger Commercial $2,681.41 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,684.61 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2,782.96 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2,782.96 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2,782.96 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,866.50 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $2,981.16 ↑ +21%
Cigna Commercial $3,194.10 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $3,480.75 ↑ +42%
CareFirst Commercial $3,480.75 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $3,562.65 ↑ +45%
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
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,483.80 $432.45 – $2,217.60
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 Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,406.60 $674.37 – $1,048.86

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