Leg Artery Ultrasound (complete, both legs) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$450.00
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.
$750.00
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.
$143.68 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $880.87 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $143.68 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $161.49 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $161.49 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $190.85 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $215.68 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $217.72 | ↓ -52% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $228.54 | ↓ -49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $232.31 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $236.40 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $241.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $248.86 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $250.19 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $253.50 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $270.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $292.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $294.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $300.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $300.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $300.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $300.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $375.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $432.66 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $438.50 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $442.55 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $481.96 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $525.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $587.25 | ↑ +31% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $600.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $637.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $637.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $645.45 | ↑ +43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $668.38 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $690.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $880.87 | ↑ +96% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Leg Artery Ultrasound (complete, both legs) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $985.80 | $142.33 – $451.41 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,940.40 | $143.68 – $514.59 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,404.00 | $143.21 – $524.89 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,340.40 | $143.68 – $442.55 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $887.40 | $119.34 – $1,183.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $979.80 | $83.15 – $1,469.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $819.60 | $156.34 – $1,161.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $651.00 | $154.15 – $868.00 |