Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$2.34
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.
$9.00
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.
$3.10 with Highmark vs $189.61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $3.10 | ↑ +32% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $3.28 | ↑ +40% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $3.78 | ↑ +62% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $3.78 | ↑ +62% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $4.27 | ↑ +82% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $4.75 | ↑ +103% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $5.22 | ↑ +123% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $5.22 | ↑ +123% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $5.22 | ↑ +123% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $5.22 | ↑ +123% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $5.22 | ↑ +123% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $7.45 | ↑ +218% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $8.10 | ↑ +246% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $8.16 | ↑ +249% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $8.60 | ↑ +268% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $8.60 | ↑ +268% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $8.64 | ↑ +269% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $8.91 | ↑ +281% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $8.91 | ↑ +281% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $52.57 | ↑ +2147% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $52.57 | ↑ +2147% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $53.14 | ↑ +2171% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $57.14 | ↑ +2342% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $57.14 | ↑ +2342% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $57.14 | ↑ +2342% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $58.86 | ↑ +2415% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $59.43 | ↑ +2440% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $59.43 | ↑ +2440% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $59.43 | ↑ +2440% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $59.43 | ↑ +2440% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $59.43 | ↑ +2440% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $60.57 | ↑ +2488% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $60.57 | ↑ +2488% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $61.14 | ↑ +2513% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $61.14 | ↑ +2513% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $61.72 | ↑ +2538% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $62.29 | ↑ +2562% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $93.21 | ↑ +3883% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $173.72 | ↑ +7324% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $189.61 | ↑ +8003% |
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Lung function test (mbc/mvv) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $163.80 | $5.40 – $218.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $155.40 | $6.20 – $70.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $109.20 | $9.90 – $145.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $99.00 | $9.90 – $81.67 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $115.80 | $9.90 – $67.46 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $145.20 | $7.07 – $90.78 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $102.60 | $9.90 – $67.46 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $100.20 | $6.21 – $70.79 |