Ecg external < 48 hours scanning analysis w/report at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$456.60
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.
$761.00
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.
$43.74 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $910.43 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 | $43.74 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $43.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $51.69 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $53.00 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $58.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $58.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $59.46 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $61.15 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $61.16 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $61.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $61.89 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $62.29 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $62.92 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $67.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $148.51 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $188.55 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $203.70 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $273.96 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $291.28 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $296.79 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $298.31 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $304.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $304.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $304.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $304.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $380.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $453.22 | ↓ -1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $498.14 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $532.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $606.96 | ↑ +33% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $608.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $646.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $646.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $667.12 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $700.12 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $910.43 | ↑ +99% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ecg external < 48 hours scanning analysis w/report at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $966.00 | $43.74 – $207.62 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $516.00 | $43.74 – $236.86 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $946.80 | $43.74 – $241.42 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $838.80 | $43.74 – $203.70 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $368.40 | $39.76 – $491.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $966.00 | $20.43 – $1,449.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $259.20 | $50.50 – $367.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $376.80 | $41.75 – $502.40 |