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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$1,935.00
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.
$3,225.00
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.
$155.12 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,741.25 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $155.12 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $155.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $209.13 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $220.15 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $240.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $343.42 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $396.39 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $451.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $548.88 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $564.51 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $564.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $575.01 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $812.70 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $883.65 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $897.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $903.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $903.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $993.96 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,079.53 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,201.39 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,225.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,290.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,290.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,331.20 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,257.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,402.77 | ↑ +24% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,580.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,580.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,741.25 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | 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 Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,599.80 | $117.77 – $3,683.05 |
| 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 |