Assay of breath ethanol at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$20.70
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.
$90.00
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.
$19.80 with Highmark vs $68.68 with Highmark — 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 My Blue Access | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $19.80 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $23.10 | ↑ +12% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $25.50 | ↑ +23% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $25.50 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $27.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $27.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $27.90 | ↑ +35% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $28.96 | ↑ +40% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $29.28 | ↑ +41% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $29.28 | ↑ +41% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $30.00 | ↑ +45% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $30.90 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $30.99 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $31.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $31.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $31.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $31.20 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $31.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $31.45 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $31.50 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $31.80 | ↑ +54% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $31.80 | ↑ +54% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $32.10 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $32.40 | ↑ +57% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $32.40 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $32.64 | ↑ +58% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $32.70 | ↑ +58% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $36.06 | ↑ +74% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $45.21 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $63.81 | ↑ +208% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $68.68 | ↑ +232% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Assay of breath ethanol at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $23.40 | $14.53 – $32.70 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $202.80 | $24.19 – $32.40 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $39.00 | $16.57 – $129.48 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $124.20 | $24.61 – $33.08 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $165.00 | $24.04 – $33.00 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $124.80 | $22.50 – $136.20 |