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Thyroid Ultrasound at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$585.00
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.
$975.00
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.
$83.98 with UPMC Health Plan vs $877.50 with Health Payors Organization — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $83.98 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $84.51 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $85.70 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $87.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $95.91 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $104.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $106.45 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.49 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $109.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $111.52 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $113.23 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $120.82 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $130.12 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $211.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $216.02 | ↓ -63% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $243.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $272.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $289.28 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $296.89 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $302.25 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $310.63 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $331.50 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $370.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $390.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $390.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $407.44 | ↓ -30% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $429.00 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $487.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $545.68 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $585.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $731.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $780.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $780.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $799.50 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $877.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $877.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyroid Ultrasound at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,002.00 | $83.98 – $1,419.50 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $670.20 | $83.98 – $1,027.64 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,263.00 | $61.18 – $1,789.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,162.20 | $83.98 – $1,646.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $880.80 | $83.98 – $1,174.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $598.20 | $64.85 – $697.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $394.20 | $66.78 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $572.40 | $50.98 – $763.20 |