Echocardiography transthoracic 2d complete w/contrast or without & w/contrast with doppler at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$2,896.20
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.
$4,827.00
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.
$436.57 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,567.42 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $436.57 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $698.17 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $772.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $790.89 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $813.49 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $828.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,140.33 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,527.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,645.88 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,674.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,819.78 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,834.26 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,858.39 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,858.39 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,930.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,930.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,204.29 | ↓ -24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,217.60 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,413.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,654.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,896.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,378.90 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,861.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,861.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,102.95 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,567.42 | ↑ +58% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | 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 |
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| 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 Hanover | Hanover | $2,457.00 | $591.94 – $2,217.60 |