Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$1,738.26
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.
$2,349.00
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.
$93.14 with Amerihealth vs $1,973.50 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) | $93.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $93.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $93.67 | ↓ -95% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $100.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $103.74 | ↓ -94% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $106.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $106.76 | ↓ -94% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $110.79 | ↓ -94% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $117.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $122.41 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $123.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $128.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $128.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $128.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $128.62 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $128.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $130.94 | ↓ -92% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $133.05 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $146.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $146.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $171.92 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $206.15 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $217.34 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $217.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $547.20 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $547.20 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $553.14 | ↓ -68% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $594.78 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $618.57 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $618.57 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $618.57 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $618.57 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $630.47 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $630.47 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $636.41 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $636.41 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $642.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $648.31 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $970.20 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $1,808.13 | ↑ +4% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $1,973.50 | ↑ +14% |
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Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,635.00 | $403.71 – $2,180.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,040.00 | $212.67 – $3,060.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,304.60 | $64.39 – $1,016.56 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $1,808.73 | $87.85 – $1,693.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,092.60 | $42.41 – $863.16 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,304.60 | $94.00 – $1,221.53 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,153.40 | $407.56 – $2,871.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,974.60 | $403.71 – $863.16 |