Tongue base vol reduction at AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL
12351 PERRY HIGHWAY, WEXFORD, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1588269898
$271.18
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.
$1,043.00
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.
$323.18 with Highmark vs $10,351.98 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 Community Blue Medicare | $323.18 | ↑ +19% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $347.51 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $357.94 | ↑ +32% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $368.36 | ↑ +36% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $368.36 | ↑ +36% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $382.26 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $402.82 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $426.11 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $591.07 | ↑ +118% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $666.35 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $702.53 | ↑ +159% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $702.53 | ↑ +159% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $2,776.75 | ↑ +924% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $2,776.75 | ↑ +924% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,870.31 | ↑ +958% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,870.31 | ↑ +958% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,901.51 | ↑ +970% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $3,119.90 | ↑ +1050% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1097% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1097% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1097% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1097% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $3,275.89 | ↑ +1108% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,307.09 | ↑ +1120% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,307.09 | ↑ +1120% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,338.29 | ↑ +1131% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,338.29 | ↑ +1131% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,369.49 | ↑ +1143% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,400.69 | ↑ +1154% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $5,089.18 | ↑ +1777% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $9,484.49 | ↑ +3397% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $10,351.98 | ↑ +3717% |
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Tongue base vol reduction at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $239.89 | $306.60 – $8,883.72 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,172.33 | $270.48 – $6,674.52 |