Incision of tongue fold at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$79.30
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.
$305.00
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.
$47.25 with Amerihealth vs $4,728.29 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 | $47.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $47.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $59.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $62.10 | ↓ -22% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $65.25 | ↓ -18% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $65.25 | ↓ -18% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $65.25 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $65.25 | ↓ -18% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $65.25 | ↓ -18% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $67.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $74.25 | ↓ -6% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $74.25 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $94.61 | ↑ +19% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $101.73 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $104.78 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $107.83 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $107.83 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $111.90 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $118.28 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $125.13 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $173.90 | ↑ +119% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $193.39 | ↑ +144% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $203.89 | ↑ +157% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $203.89 | ↑ +157% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $483.00 | ↑ +509% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +1466% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,311.02 | ↑ +1553% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,311.02 | ↑ +1553% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,325.27 | ↑ +1571% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,482.02 | ↑ +1769% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,482.02 | ↑ +1769% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,482.02 | ↑ +1769% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,482.02 | ↑ +1769% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,510.52 | ↑ +1805% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,510.52 | ↑ +1805% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,524.77 | ↑ +1823% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,524.77 | ↑ +1823% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,539.02 | ↑ +1841% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,553.27 | ↑ +1859% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $2,324.49 | ↑ +2831% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $4,332.06 | ↑ +5363% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $4,728.29 | ↑ +5863% |
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Incision of tongue fold at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,464.80 | $45.00 – $3,286.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,333.00 | $49.50 – $2,053.97 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $1,634.50 | $49.50 – $3,123.56 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | not published | $47.25 – $1,714.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $49.50 – $1,482.83 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $49.50 – $1,412.22 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | not published | $1,430.62 – $5,627.00 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | not published | $970.00 – $1,101.92 |