Biopsy arm/elbow soft tissue at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$278.30
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.
$1,210.00
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.
$28.58 with Amerihealth vs $7,840.00 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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| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $28.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $28.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $34.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $34.73 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $34.73 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $36.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $36.23 | ↓ -87% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $39.67 | ↓ -86% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $39.67 | ↓ -86% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $39.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $45.48 | ↓ -84% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $45.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $47.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $50.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $50.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $50.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $50.03 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $50.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $51.08 | ↓ -82% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $51.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $375.06 | ↑ +35% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $403.29 | ↑ +45% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $403.29 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $415.39 | ↑ +49% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $427.49 | ↑ +54% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $427.49 | ↑ +54% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $443.62 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $448.51 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $474.45 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $678.31 | ↑ +144% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $754.26 | ↑ +171% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $795.21 | ↑ +186% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $795.21 | ↑ +186% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $935.34 | ↑ +236% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +346% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,533.08 | ↑ +810% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,533.08 | ↑ +810% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,560.61 | ↑ +820% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $2,753.35 | ↑ +889% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $2,753.35 | ↑ +889% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $2,753.35 | ↑ +889% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $2,863.48 | ↑ +929% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $2,863.48 | ↑ +929% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $2,863.48 | ↑ +929% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $2,863.48 | ↑ +929% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $2,918.55 | ↑ +949% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $2,918.55 | ↑ +949% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $2,946.08 | ↑ +959% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $2,946.08 | ↑ +959% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $2,973.62 | ↑ +968% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,001.15 | ↑ +978% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $5,430.43 | ↑ +1851% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $5,856.37 | ↑ +2004% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $7,840.00 | ↑ +2717% |
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Biopsy arm/elbow soft tissue at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $314.60 | $28.58 – $9,135.75 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $3,338.50 | $37.95 – $5,847.63 |