Tilt table study at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$65.52
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.
$252.00
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.
$71.27 with Highmark vs $1,693.69 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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| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $71.27 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $75.39 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $111.45 | ↑ +70% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $111.72 | ↑ +71% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $112.48 | ↑ +72% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $112.48 | ↑ +72% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $117.80 | ↑ +80% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $117.80 | ↑ +80% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $141.40 | ↑ +116% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $155.32 | ↑ +137% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $155.32 | ↑ +137% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $155.32 | ↑ +137% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $155.32 | ↑ +137% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $155.32 | ↑ +137% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $171.39 | ↑ +162% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $469.61 | ↑ +617% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $469.61 | ↑ +617% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $474.72 | ↑ +625% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $510.45 | ↑ +679% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $510.45 | ↑ +679% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $510.45 | ↑ +679% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $525.76 | ↑ +702% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $530.87 | ↑ +710% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $530.87 | ↑ +710% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $530.87 | ↑ +710% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $530.87 | ↑ +710% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $530.87 | ↑ +710% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $541.07 | ↑ +726% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $541.07 | ↑ +726% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $546.18 | ↑ +734% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $546.18 | ↑ +734% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $551.28 | ↑ +741% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $556.39 | ↑ +749% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $832.64 | ↑ +1171% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $1,551.76 | ↑ +2268% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $1,693.69 | ↑ +2485% |
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Tilt table study at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,418.40 | $368.54 – $1,891.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,303.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,303.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,909.20 | $372.05 – $2,545.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,359.60 | $368.54 – $720.95 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,151.02 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,151.02 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $1,551.60 | $372.05 – $556.45 |