Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$41.08
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.
$158.00
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.
$58.22 with Amerihealth vs $1,139.97 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 D-SNP Medicare | $58.22 | ↑ +42% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $58.22 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $65.54 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $69.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $73.19 | ↑ +78% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $80.40 | ↑ +96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $80.40 | ↑ +96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $80.40 | ↑ +96% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $80.40 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $80.40 | ↑ +96% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $90.30 | ↑ +120% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $108.79 | ↑ +165% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $114.69 | ↑ +179% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $114.69 | ↑ +179% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $316.08 | ↑ +669% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $316.08 | ↑ +669% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $319.52 | ↑ +678% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $343.57 | ↑ +736% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $343.57 | ↑ +736% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $343.57 | ↑ +736% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $353.87 | ↑ +761% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +770% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $357.31 | ↑ +770% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +770% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +770% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $357.31 | ↑ +770% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $364.18 | ↑ +787% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $364.18 | ↑ +787% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $367.62 | ↑ +795% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $367.62 | ↑ +795% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $369.03 | ↑ +798% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $371.05 | ↑ +803% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $374.49 | ↑ +812% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $401.12 | ↑ +876% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $427.86 | ↑ +942% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $441.23 | ↑ +974% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $441.23 | ↑ +974% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $560.43 | ↑ +1264% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $1,044.44 | ↑ +2442% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $1,139.97 | ↑ +2675% |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $267.41 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,854.80 | $338.22 – $4,044.30 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $3,135.44 | $46.47 – $978.28 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,384.20 | $276.76 – $1,845.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,854.80 | $347.79 – $4,044.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,542.20 | $341.40 – $3,389.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,178.60 | $148.12 – $959.98 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,854.80 | $337.76 – $1,004.63 |