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Echograp trans r pros study at UPMC Presbyterian

200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$1,058.40

Cash price

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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.

$1,764.00

Gross charge

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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.

$78.24 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,499.40 with InterGroup — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $78.24 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $87.39 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $109.49 ↓ -90%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $109.49 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $109.49 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.49 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $109.49 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicare $111.52 ↓ -89%
Aetna of PA Medicare $111.52 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $216.63 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $290.09 ↓ -73%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $317.52 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $346.75 ↓ -67%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $403.20 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $408.59 ↓ -61%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $547.20 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $580.18 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $949.18 ↓ -10%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $970.20 ↓ -8%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,146.60 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,234.80 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $1,323.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $1,323.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1,411.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $1,411.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,411.20 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $1,411.20 ↑ +33%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1,499.40 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $1,499.40 ↑ +42%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1,499.40 ↑ +42%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Echograp trans r pros study at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $832.80 $87.39 – $1,179.80
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,909.20 $84.51 – $2,863.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $251.40 $87.39 – $356.15
UPMC Muncy Muncy $392.40 $83.46 – $523.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $576.60 $91.94 – $816.85
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $474.40 $83.46 – $533.70

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