Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$144.82
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.
$557.00
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.
$172.71 with Highmark vs $3,763.66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $172.71 | ↑ +19% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $185.71 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $191.28 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $196.85 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $196.85 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $204.28 | ↑ +41% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $236.69 | ↑ +63% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $236.69 | ↑ +63% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $239.42 | ↑ +65% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $253.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $297.55 | ↑ +105% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $311.08 | ↑ +115% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $315.49 | ↑ +118% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $326.86 | ↑ +126% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $326.86 | ↑ +126% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $326.86 | ↑ +126% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $326.86 | ↑ +126% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $326.86 | ↑ +126% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $338.13 | ↑ +133% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $368.64 | ↑ +155% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $371.94 | ↑ +157% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $371.94 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $388.65 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $388.65 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $512.00 | ↑ +254% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,043.55 | ↑ +621% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,043.55 | ↑ +621% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,054.90 | ↑ +628% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $1,134.30 | ↑ +683% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,179.67 | ↑ +715% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,179.67 | ↑ +715% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,179.67 | ↑ +715% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,179.67 | ↑ +715% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,202.36 | ↑ +730% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,202.36 | ↑ +730% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,213.70 | ↑ +738% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,213.70 | ↑ +738% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,225.04 | ↑ +746% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,236.39 | ↑ +754% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $1,850.27 | ↑ +1178% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $3,448.27 | ↑ +2281% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $3,763.66 | ↑ +2499% |
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Colonoscopy (with biopsy) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,764.60 | $225.42 – $2,352.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,656.60 | $236.69 – $2,484.90 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $128.11 | $161.40 – $3,229.85 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $727.20 | $236.69 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,055.20 | $247.96 – $4,073.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,099.00 | $247.96 – $1,634.95 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,132.40 | $247.96 – $1,180.32 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,476.20 | $247.96 – $1,419.79 |