Biopsy of heart lining at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$8,851.14
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.
$11,961.00
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.
$196.88 with Amerihealth vs $10,046.92 with Medical Mutual — 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 Caritas Medicare (NY) | $196.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $196.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $247.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $250.89 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $258.75 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $265.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $271.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $271.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $271.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $271.88 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $271.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $281.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $309.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $309.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $353.83 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $412.35 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $434.74 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $434.74 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,438.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,785.72 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,785.72 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,816.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $3,027.96 | ↓ -66% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $3,027.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $3,027.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $3,118.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,149.08 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $3,149.08 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,209.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,209.64 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,239.92 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,239.92 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,270.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,300.47 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $4,939.21 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $9,204.99 | ↑ +4% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $10,046.92 | ↑ +14% |
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Biopsy of heart lining at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,347.20 | $187.50 – $3,129.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,461.60 | $206.25 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,613.20 | $206.25 – $3,300.84 |