Echo transthoracic at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$987.00
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.
$1,645.00
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.
$155.56 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,513.40 with Multiplan — 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 | $155.56 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $172.97 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $172.97 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $204.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $233.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $244.79 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $248.83 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $267.99 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $474.75 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $477.08 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $485.58 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $489.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $521.81 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $536.23 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $548.88 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $564.51 | ↓ -43% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $592.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $635.79 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $641.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $644.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $698.81 | ↓ -29% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $750.14 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $822.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $953.69 | ↓ -3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,151.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,316.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,398.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,398.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,513.40 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo transthoracic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,946.00 | $114.00 – $636.79 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $781.20 | $95.00 – $1,041.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $124.45 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $511.20 | $165.11 – $681.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,737.60 | $124.45 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $766.80 | $154.09 – $714.96 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,737.60 | $124.45 – $838.06 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,737.60 | $124.45 – $842.59 |