Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
189 EAST MAIN STREET, WESTFIELD, NY · Ahn · · NPI 1942236427
$28.86
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.
$37.00
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.
$3.00 with Amerihealth vs $11.18 with Highmark — 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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| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $3.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $3.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Jefferson Health Plans | Jefferson Health Plans | $3.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $3.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $3.55 | ↓ -88% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $4.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $4.58 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $4.58 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $4.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $4.80 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $4.80 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $4.80 | ↓ -83% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $4.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $4.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $4.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $5.01 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $5.04 | ↓ -83% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $5.39 | ↓ -81% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $5.39 | ↓ -81% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $5.39 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $5.55 | ↓ -81% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $5.55 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $5.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $5.61 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $5.61 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $5.61 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $5.61 | ↓ -81% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $5.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicare New York | $5.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $5.71 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $5.77 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $5.82 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $5.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $5.88 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $10.35 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $11.18 | ↓ -61% |
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