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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$1,759.20
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.
$2,932.00
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 $2,402.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $162.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $196.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $209.13 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $212.66 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $220.15 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $240.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $343.42 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $396.39 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $524.15 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $534.03 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $548.88 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $548.88 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $559.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $564.51 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $564.56 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $575.01 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $879.76 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $897.02 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $967.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $993.96 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,029.13 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,067.59 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,114.16 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,120.02 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,143.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,143.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,143.48 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,143.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $1,172.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,172.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,172.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,201.39 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,331.20 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,466.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,052.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,345.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,402.77 | ↑ +37% |
| 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 Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,111.40 | $155.12 – $2,991.15 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,495.80 | $155.12 – $1,745.10 |
| 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 |