Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$487.20
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.
$812.00
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.
$267.96 with United Healthcare vs $2,226.97 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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| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $267.96 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $285.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $308.56 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $310.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $316.68 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $316.68 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $316.68 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $316.68 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $318.29 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $324.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $324.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $324.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $341.40 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $347.83 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $357.50 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $364.31 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -25% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -25% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $367.72 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $374.53 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $406.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $446.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $446.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $568.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $649.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $831.39 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $921.24 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,113.49 | ↑ +129% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,233.80 | ↑ +153% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,276.30 | ↑ +162% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,548.79 | ↑ +218% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,226.97 | ↑ +357% |
| 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 |
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| 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 Hamot | Erie | $489.00 | $272.00 – $566.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $691.20 | $308.78 – $367.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,378.20 | $294.41 – $1,276.30 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,753.20 | $304.83 – $638.91 |