Doppler upper/lower extremity arteries limited bilateral at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$239.40
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.
$399.00
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$53.67 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $467.41 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 Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $53.67 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $53.67 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $63.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $72.36 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $75.95 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $76.24 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $77.21 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $83.15 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $115.01 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $126.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $129.03 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $135.18 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $143.64 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $155.61 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $156.41 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $159.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $159.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $159.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $159.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $199.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $224.56 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $232.68 | ↓ -3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $255.74 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $279.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $311.61 | ↑ +30% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $319.20 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $333.51 | ↑ +39% |
| Humana | Commercial | $339.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $339.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $342.49 | ↑ +43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $346.91 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $367.08 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $467.41 | ↑ +95% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Doppler upper/lower extremity arteries limited bilateral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $782.40 | $53.67 – $318.24 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $464.40 | $53.67 – $387.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $505.20 | $44.53 – $370.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $717.60 | $53.67 – $333.51 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $325.80 | $37.11 – $434.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $327.00 | $44.34 – $490.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $547.20 | $47.13 – $801.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $276.00 | $51.23 – $305.60 |