Contrast x-ray of brain 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.
$58.77 with Amerihealth vs $2,521.90 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 | $58.77 | ↑ +43% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $58.77 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $65.14 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $67.05 | ↑ +63% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $68.90 | ↑ +68% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $72.89 | ↑ +77% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $73.88 | ↑ +80% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $77.74 | ↑ +89% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $77.74 | ↑ +89% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $77.74 | ↑ +89% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $77.74 | ↑ +89% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $80.17 | ↑ +95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $80.17 | ↑ +95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $81.16 | ↑ +98% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $81.16 | ↑ +98% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $89.75 | ↑ +118% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $108.12 | ↑ +163% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $113.99 | ↑ +177% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $113.99 | ↑ +177% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $699.25 | ↑ +1602% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $699.25 | ↑ +1602% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $706.85 | ↑ +1621% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $760.05 | ↑ +1750% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $760.05 | ↑ +1750% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $760.05 | ↑ +1750% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $782.86 | ↑ +1806% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $790.46 | ↑ +1824% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $790.46 | ↑ +1824% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +1824% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +1824% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +1824% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $805.66 | ↑ +1861% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $805.66 | ↑ +1861% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $813.26 | ↑ +1880% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $813.26 | ↑ +1880% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $820.86 | ↑ +1898% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $828.46 | ↑ +1917% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $1,239.80 | ↑ +2918% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $2,310.56 | ↑ +5525% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $2,521.90 | ↑ +6039% |
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Contrast x-ray of brain at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,984.80 | $48.59 – $6,646.40 |