Arthrd cmbn 1ntrspc lumbar at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$1,175.30
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.
$5,110.00
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.
$145.53 with Univera vs $50,375.76 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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| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $145.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $145.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $191.17 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $246.94 | ↓ -79% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $246.94 | ↓ -79% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $301.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $310.44 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $341.01 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $341.01 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $341.01 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $341.01 | ↓ -71% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $341.01 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $376.29 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $1,900.04 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $2,009.91 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $2,889.66 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $3,401.61 | ↑ +189% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $3,586.30 | ↑ +205% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $3,586.30 | ↑ +205% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $16,276.27 | ↑ +1285% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $16,276.27 | ↑ +1285% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $16,453.18 | ↑ +1300% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $17,691.60 | ↑ +1405% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $17,691.60 | ↑ +1405% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $17,691.60 | ↑ +1405% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $17,691.60 | ↑ +1405% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $17,691.60 | ↑ +1405% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $18,222.34 | ↑ +1450% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $18,399.26 | ↑ +1465% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $18,399.26 | ↑ +1465% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $18,399.26 | ↑ +1465% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $18,399.26 | ↑ +1465% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $18,399.26 | ↑ +1465% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $18,753.09 | ↑ +1496% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $18,753.09 | ↑ +1496% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $18,930.01 | ↑ +1511% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $18,930.01 | ↑ +1511% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $19,106.92 | ↑ +1526% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $19,283.84 | ↑ +1541% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $34,893.13 | ↑ +2869% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $37,630.02 | ↑ +3102% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $50,375.76 | ↑ +4186% |
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Arthrd cmbn 1ntrspc lumbar at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $1,328.60 | $246.94 – $58,701.60 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $10,666.47 | $205.80 – $54,624.77 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $1,925.57 – $23,763.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $2,362.51 – $19,285.98 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $2,340.23 – $25,500.07 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $2,708.93 – $18,935.33 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $1,925.57 – $28,108.82 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | not published | $1,925.57 – $28,260.66 |