Blood smear interpretation at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$15.18
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.
$66.00
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.
$19.26 with Univera vs $48.91 with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — 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 | $19.26 | ↑ +27% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $19.26 | ↑ +27% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $22.91 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $22.91 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $23.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $23.98 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $25.54 | ↑ +68% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $25.71 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $26.18 | ↑ +72% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $26.90 | ↑ +77% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $26.90 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $27.70 | ↑ +82% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $48.91 | ↑ +222% |
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Blood smear interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $89.40 | $8.46 – $119.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $85.80 | $8.46 – $121.55 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $97.68 | $22.91 – $26.18 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $85.80 | $8.46 – $121.55 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $227.40 | $4.22 – $64.73 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $92.40 | $2.35 – $62.47 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $85.80 | $8.46 – $65.68 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $66.00 | $2.36 – $62.47 |