Blood typing patient serum at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$11.50
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.
$50.00
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.
$10.78 with Highmark vs $37.41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $10.78 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $12.58 | ↑ +9% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $13.13 | ↑ +14% |
| Jefferson Health Plans | Jefferson Health Plans | $13.13 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $13.13 | ↑ +14% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $13.13 | ↑ +14% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $13.89 | ↑ +21% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $13.89 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $15.03 | ↑ +31% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $15.03 | ↑ +31% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $15.10 | ↑ +31% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $15.10 | ↑ +31% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $15.10 | ↑ +31% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $15.20 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $15.74 | ↑ +37% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $16.34 | ↑ +42% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $16.83 | ↑ +46% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $16.88 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $16.99 | ↑ +48% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $16.99 | ↑ +48% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $16.99 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $16.99 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $16.99 | ↑ +48% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $17.13 | ↑ +49% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $17.16 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $17.32 | ↑ +51% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $17.32 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $17.48 | ↑ +52% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $17.65 | ↑ +53% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $17.65 | ↑ +53% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $17.78 | ↑ +55% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $17.81 | ↑ +55% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $18.12 | ↑ +58% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $19.64 | ↑ +71% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $19.70 | ↑ +71% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $21.01 | ↑ +83% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $21.01 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $21.01 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $21.01 | ↑ +83% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $28.07 | ↑ +144% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $34.76 | ↑ +202% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $37.41 | ↑ +225% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $135.60 | $13.13 – $180.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $169.20 | $5.90 – $253.80 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $13.00 | $7.92 – $21.01 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $96.00 | $13.13 – $30.66 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $105.60 | $14.44 – $26.08 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $112.80 | $14.44 – $26.08 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $115.20 | $14.11 – $26.08 |