Echo guide for transfusion at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$46.28
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.
$178.00
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.
$51.12 with Highmark vs $125.16 with United Healthcare — 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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| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $51.12 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $54.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $65.19 | ↑ +41% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $65.53 | ↑ +42% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $65.53 | ↑ +42% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $70.86 | ↑ +53% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $75.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $75.58 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $75.58 | ↑ +63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $75.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $77.95 | ↑ +68% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $77.95 | ↑ +68% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $81.92 | ↑ +77% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $82.38 | ↑ +78% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $90.49 | ↑ +96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $90.49 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $118.71 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $125.16 | ↑ +170% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $125.16 | ↑ +170% |
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Echo guide for transfusion at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $434.40 | $61.88 – $615.40 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $40.94 | $47.24 – $81.92 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $434.40 | $61.88 – $658.61 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $434.40 | $61.88 – $312.91 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $790.20 | $113.91 – $324.88 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $434.40 | $61.88 – $409.39 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $434.40 | $54.33 – $299.00 |