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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$2,599.80
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.
$4,333.00
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.
$117.77 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,683.05 with Humana — 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 | $117.77 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $155.12 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $183.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $209.13 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $212.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $219.53 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $223.15 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $240.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $343.42 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $464.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $540.23 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $564.56 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $564.56 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $564.56 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $851.29 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,139.99 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,422.41 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,600.48 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,143.43 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,279.98 | ↓ -12% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,816.45 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,033.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,249.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $3,249.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $3,466.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,466.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,466.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $3,466.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3,683.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $3,683.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,683.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,111.40 | $155.12 – $2,991.15 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,866.00 | $155.12 – $2,861.20 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,508.00 | $155.12 – $3,762.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,935.00 | $155.12 – $2,741.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,759.20 | $155.12 – $2,345.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,495.80 | $155.12 – $1,745.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,311.20 | $48.09 – $839.22 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,464.00 | $98.14 – $1,952.00 |