Ultrasound joint/nonvascular extremity limited left at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$168.00
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.
$280.00
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.
$18.41 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $315.22 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 | $18.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $40.99 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $45.40 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $53.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $54.89 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $71.36 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $92.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $98.28 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $101.65 | ↓ -39% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $103.57 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $106.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $106.45 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $106.45 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $106.96 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $108.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $109.20 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $109.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $109.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $109.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.48 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -35% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $109.49 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $109.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $111.52 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $111.52 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $112.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $112.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $112.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $140.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $147.79 | ↓ -12% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $154.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $196.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $224.00 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $315.22 | ↑ +88% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ultrasound joint/nonvascular extremity limited left at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $336.60 | $14.98 – $448.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $480.00 | $36.58 – $720.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $394.20 | $10.28 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $46.20 | $21.34 – $61.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $394.20 | $10.28 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $476.40 | $18.23 – $166.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $557.40 | $45.40 – $109.49 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $394.20 | $10.28 – $315.22 |