Esophagoscopy flex biopsy at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$74.10
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$285.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$88.47 with Highmark vs $6,055.25 with Medical Mutual — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $88.47 | ↑ +19% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $95.13 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $97.98 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $100.84 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $100.84 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $104.64 | ↑ +41% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $106.55 | ↑ +44% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $106.55 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $123.75 | ↑ +67% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $130.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $133.95 | ↑ +81% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $140.04 | ↑ +89% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $147.15 | ↑ +99% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $147.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $147.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $147.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $147.15 | ↑ +99% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $152.22 | ↑ +105% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $162.59 | ↑ +119% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $167.44 | ↑ +126% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $167.44 | ↑ +126% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $188.68 | ↑ +155% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $198.92 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $198.92 | ↑ +168% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $649.60 | ↑ +777% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,678.95 | ↑ +2166% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,678.95 | ↑ +2166% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,697.20 | ↑ +2190% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $1,824.94 | ↑ +2363% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,897.94 | ↑ +2461% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +2461% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +2461% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +2461% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,934.44 | ↑ +2511% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,934.44 | ↑ +2511% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,952.69 | ↑ +2535% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,952.69 | ↑ +2535% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,970.94 | ↑ +2560% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,989.19 | ↑ +2584% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $2,976.85 | ↑ +3917% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $5,547.82 | ↑ +7387% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $6,055.25 | ↑ +8072% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Esophagoscopy flex biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $350.40 | $106.55 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,706.40 | $111.63 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,991.00 | $111.63 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,128.80 | $111.63 – $543.53 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $101.48 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $111.63 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $111.63 – $2,630.42 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $111.63 – $1,989.40 |