Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$1,431.60
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.
$2,386.00
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.
$258.36 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,028.10 with Humana — 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 | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $258.36 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $263.44 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $263.44 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $355.16 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $373.87 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $408.14 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $484.53 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $536.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $548.88 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $564.56 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $674.84 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $800.02 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $827.94 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $899.52 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $903.81 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $906.68 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $918.61 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $918.61 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $954.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $954.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $974.02 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,011.29 | ↓ -29% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,193.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,304.48 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,431.60 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,647.73 | ↑ +15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,670.20 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,908.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,908.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,028.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $834.60 | $132.93 – $1,060.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $852.60 | $188.60 – $1,278.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $174.14 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,875.00 | $174.14 – $1,353.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,324.20 | $258.36 – $1,765.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $888.00 | $255.92 – $1,011.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,641.60 | $263.44 – $991.96 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,737.60 | $174.14 – $1,038.10 |