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Doppler echo complete at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$471.00
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.
$785.00
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.
$47.60 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $253.79 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Medicaid | $47.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $55.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $56.40 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $60.77 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $66.58 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $69.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $70.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $70.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $77.66 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $84.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $84.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $91.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial | $105.75 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $152.01 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $203.12 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $253.79 | ↓ -46% |
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Doppler echo complete at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,007.40 | $66.58 – $1,511.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $959.40 | $52.98 – $1,279.20 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,434.00 | $66.58 – $2,031.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,524.60 | $49.67 – $2,159.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $677.40 | $66.58 – $959.65 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,160.00 | $52.98 – $1,305.00 |