Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$2,743.51
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.
$3,563.00
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.
$84.33 with Aetna vs $2,568.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $84.33 | ↓ -97% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $85.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $85.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $88.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $88.55 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $91.50 | ↓ -97% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $96.98 | ↓ -96% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $96.98 | ↓ -96% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $96.98 | ↓ -96% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $98.39 | ↓ -96% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $98.39 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $101.34 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $104.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $104.29 | ↓ -96% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $107.23 | ↓ -96% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $108.23 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $111.19 | ↓ -96% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $111.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $116.38 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $117.61 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $122.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $122.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $122.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $122.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $122.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $125.64 | ↓ -95% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $126.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $139.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $139.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $166.77 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $198.30 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $209.06 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $209.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $829.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $829.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $838.81 | ↓ -69% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $901.95 | ↓ -67% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $901.95 | ↓ -67% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $901.95 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $938.03 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $938.03 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $938.03 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $938.03 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $956.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $956.07 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $965.09 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $965.09 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $974.11 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $983.13 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $1,778.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $1,918.45 | ↓ -30% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $2,568.25 | ↓ -6% |
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Abdominal paracentesis w/image guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,179.80 | $84.33 – $2,906.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,008.20 | $88.55 – $3,012.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,225.20 | $107.10 – $1,735.70 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $2,636.62 | $88.55 – $2,992.72 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,693.20 | $57.93 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,225.20 | $113.85 – $3,102.01 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,540.40 | $92.76 – $3,387.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,052.60 | $92.76 – $1,300.05 |