Brief comunicaj tech-bsd svc at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$9.89
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.
$43.00
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.
$12.39 with Univera vs $32.96 with Martin's Point — 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 | $12.39 | ↑ +25% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $12.39 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $13.09 | ↑ +32% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $14.08 | ↑ +42% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $14.08 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $14.50 | ↑ +47% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $14.58 | ↑ +47% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $14.92 | ↑ +51% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $14.92 | ↑ +51% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $15.49 | ↑ +57% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $17.50 | ↑ +77% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $24.10 | ↑ +144% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $28.74 | ↑ +191% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $30.30 | ↑ +206% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $30.30 | ↑ +206% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $32.96 | ↑ +233% |
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Brief comunicaj tech-bsd svc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $11.18 | $13.09 – $32.96 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $18.60 | $8.59 – $24.80 |