Ear cartilage graft at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$416.52
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.
$1,602.00
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.
$470.40 with Amerihealth vs $18,882.97 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 Medicare (NY) | $470.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $470.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $496.69 | ↑ +19% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $534.08 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $550.10 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $566.12 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $566.12 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $587.49 | ↑ +41% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $591.36 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $612.40 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $647.81 | ↑ +56% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $649.60 | ↑ +56% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $649.60 | ↑ +56% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $649.60 | ↑ +56% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $649.60 | ↑ +56% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $649.60 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $907.29 | ↑ +118% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $1,016.14 | ↑ +144% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,070.88 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $1,071.31 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $1,071.31 | ↑ +157% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,164.00 | ↑ +179% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +198% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +207% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +207% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $5,235.70 | ↑ +1157% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $5,235.70 | ↑ +1157% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $5,292.61 | ↑ +1171% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $5,690.98 | ↑ +1266% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $5,918.62 | ↑ +1321% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $5,918.62 | ↑ +1321% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $5,918.62 | ↑ +1321% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $5,918.62 | ↑ +1321% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $6,032.44 | ↑ +1348% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $6,032.44 | ↑ +1348% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $6,089.35 | ↑ +1362% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $6,089.35 | ↑ +1362% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $6,146.26 | ↑ +1376% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $6,203.17 | ↑ +1389% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $9,283.13 | ↑ +2129% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $17,300.59 | ↑ +4054% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $18,882.97 | ↑ +4434% |
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Ear cartilage graft at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $368.46 | $46.72 – $16,204.73 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $9,009.00 | $1,646.97 – $2,319.98 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $5,724.92 | $5,737.84 – $13,369.17 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $1,383.52 – $6,091.06 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $1,631.43 – $8,202.79 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | not published | $1,016.56 – $9,090.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,329.00 – $6,203.86 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | not published | $17,510.00 – $17,510.00 |