Echo tte 2d comp wo ctrst wo clr/dplr at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$562.20
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.
$937.00
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.
$154.42 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,141.78 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 | $154.42 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $154.42 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $182.49 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $186.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $208.18 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $215.68 | ↓ -62% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $218.53 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $222.14 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $236.40 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $239.24 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $241.97 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $248.86 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $253.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $337.32 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $365.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $367.30 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $374.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $374.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $374.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $374.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $468.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $561.06 | ↓ -0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $568.38 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $624.72 | ↑ +11% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $655.62 | ↑ +17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $655.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $749.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $761.19 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial | $796.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $796.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $836.64 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $862.04 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $866.75 | ↑ +54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,141.78 | ↑ +103% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo tte 2d comp wo ctrst wo clr/dplr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,508.00 | $154.42 – $659.65 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,004.60 | $154.42 – $762.35 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,546.60 | $114.00 – $767.03 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,282.20 | $95.00 – $1,709.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $841.20 | $124.45 – $1,191.70 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $841.20 | $68.20 – $664.18 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $900.00 | $154.42 – $1,200.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $811.20 | $154.42 – $655.62 |