Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast 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

$1,378.20

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.

$2,297.00

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.

$294.41 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,998.39 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 $294.41 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $337.76 ↓ -75%
Humana Medicare $341.17 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $355.84 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $358.23 ↓ -74%
Geisinger Medicare $358.23 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Medicare $365.05 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $368.46 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $436.43 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $436.43 ↓ -68%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $545.87 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $555.87 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $1,131.80 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,213.54 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,263.35 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1,263.35 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,276.30 ↓ -7%
Aetna ACO $1,304.70 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $1,504.08 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,561.04 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,561.04 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,561.04 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,607.90 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $1,672.22 ↑ +21%
Cigna Commercial $1,791.66 ↑ +30%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,907.00 ↑ +38%
CareFirst Commercial $1,952.45 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,952.45 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,998.39 ↑ +45%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $387.00 $315.29 – $1,276.30
UPMC Bedford Everett $556.80 $122.85 – $835.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,378.20 $187.90 – $1,952.45
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,378.20 $294.41 – $1,952.45
UPMC East Monroeville $487.20 $267.96 – $649.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $489.00 $272.00 – $566.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $691.20 $308.78 – $367.72
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,753.20 $304.83 – $638.91

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