Low back disk surgery at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$674.44
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.
$2,594.00
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.
$138.74 with Amerihealth vs $22,803.00 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 | $138.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $138.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $174.41 | ↓ -74% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $191.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $191.59 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $191.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $191.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $191.59 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $967.57 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $1,023.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,070.88 | ↑ +59% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,164.00 | ↑ +73% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +90% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $1,464.95 | ↑ +117% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $1,775.74 | ↑ +163% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $1,872.15 | ↑ +178% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $1,872.15 | ↑ +178% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $6,322.62 | ↑ +837% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $6,322.62 | ↑ +837% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $6,391.34 | ↑ +848% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $6,872.41 | ↑ +919% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $6,872.41 | ↑ +919% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $6,872.41 | ↑ +919% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $7,078.58 | ↑ +950% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $7,147.31 | ↑ +960% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $7,147.31 | ↑ +960% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $7,147.31 | ↑ +960% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $7,147.31 | ↑ +960% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $7,147.31 | ↑ +960% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $7,284.76 | ↑ +980% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $7,284.76 | ↑ +980% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $7,353.48 | ↑ +990% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $7,353.48 | ↑ +990% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $7,422.20 | ↑ +1000% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $7,490.93 | ↑ +1011% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $11,210.28 | ↑ +1562% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $20,892.13 | ↑ +2998% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $22,803.00 | ↑ +3281% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $596.62 | $81.53 – $19,568.78 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,207.80 | $240.89 – $2,732.95 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $11,699.50 | $205.80 – $14,607.83 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $1,631.43 – $7,355.55 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $1,016.56 – $10,934.13 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $1,016.56 – $11,127.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $1,646.97 – $7,491.76 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $1,631.43 – $9,905.66 |