Incision of metatarsal at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$286.00
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.
$1,100.00
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.
$274.05 with Amerihealth vs $10,356.89 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) | $274.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $274.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $341.03 | ↑ +19% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $344.52 | ↑ +20% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $366.70 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $377.70 | ↑ +32% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $378.45 | ↑ +32% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $378.45 | ↑ +32% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $378.45 | ↑ +32% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $378.45 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $378.45 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $388.70 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $388.70 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $403.37 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $409.27 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $432.93 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $621.37 | ↑ +117% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $693.01 | ↑ +142% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $730.64 | ↑ +155% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $730.64 | ↑ +155% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,429.68 | ↑ +400% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,554.00 | ↑ +443% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,657.60 | ↑ +480% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,709.40 | ↑ +498% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,709.40 | ↑ +498% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,871.67 | ↑ +904% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,871.67 | ↑ +904% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,902.88 | ↑ +915% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $3,121.38 | ↑ +991% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +1035% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +1035% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,246.23 | ↑ +1035% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +1035% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,308.66 | ↑ +1057% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,308.66 | ↑ +1057% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,339.88 | ↑ +1068% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,339.88 | ↑ +1068% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,371.09 | ↑ +1079% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,402.30 | ↑ +1090% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $5,091.59 | ↑ +1680% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $9,488.99 | ↑ +3218% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $10,356.89 | ↑ +3521% |
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Incision of metatarsal at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $253.00 | $32.01 – $8,887.94 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $719.40 | $332.36 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $669.00 | $1,034.95 – $1,326.08 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $204.00 | $1,091.80 – $1,326.08 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $729.80 – $3,340.82 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $1,083.09 – $4,966.18 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $1,076.30 – $5,805.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $736.75 – $3,402.68 |