Ultrasound transabd ea addl gest at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$349.80
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.
$583.00
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.
$102.38 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $595.00 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 | $102.38 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $119.34 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $119.34 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $120.53 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $141.04 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $151.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $160.89 | ↓ -54% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $168.89 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $171.67 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $184.89 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $187.40 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $209.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $227.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $228.54 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $233.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $233.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $233.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $233.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $263.13 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $291.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $291.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $296.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $343.42 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $396.67 | ↑ +13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $408.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $459.92 | ↑ +31% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $466.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $495.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $495.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $536.36 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $595.00 | ↑ +70% |
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Ultrasound transabd ea addl gest at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,279.20 | $75.10 – $308.12 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $633.60 | $45.22 – $844.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $343.20 | $59.24 – $486.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $343.20 | $59.24 – $486.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $430.80 | $75.50 – $463.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $343.20 | $59.24 – $275.36 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $677.40 | $70.21 – $263.13 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $677.40 | $52.00 – $263.13 |