Contrast exam thoracic aorta at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$14.95
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.
$65.00
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.
$11.55 with Amerihealth vs $8,621.93 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 Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $11.55 | ↓ -23% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $11.55 | ↓ -23% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $14.52 | ↓ -3% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $15.95 | ↑ +7% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $15.95 | ↑ +7% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $15.95 | ↑ +7% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $15.95 | ↑ +7% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $15.95 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $16.50 | ↑ +10% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $18.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $18.80 | ↑ +26% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $18.98 | ↑ +27% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $18.98 | ↑ +27% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $18.98 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $22.77 | ↑ +52% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $23.23 | ↑ +55% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $24.75 | ↑ +66% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $26.40 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $26.92 | ↑ +80% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $27.22 | ↑ +82% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $27.22 | ↑ +82% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $27.22 | ↑ +82% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $28.47 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $37.07 | ↑ +148% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $45.47 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $47.94 | ↑ +221% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $47.94 | ↑ +221% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $86.60 | ↑ +479% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,785.72 | ↑ +18534% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,785.72 | ↑ +18534% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,816.00 | ↑ +18736% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $3,027.96 | ↑ +20154% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $3,027.96 | ↑ +20154% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $3,027.96 | ↑ +20154% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $3,027.96 | ↑ +20154% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $3,027.96 | ↑ +20154% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $3,118.80 | ↑ +20762% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↑ +20964% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↑ +20964% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $3,149.08 | ↑ +20964% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,149.08 | ↑ +20964% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,149.08 | ↑ +20964% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,209.64 | ↑ +21369% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,209.64 | ↑ +21369% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,239.92 | ↑ +21572% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,239.92 | ↑ +21572% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,270.19 | ↑ +21774% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,300.47 | ↑ +21977% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $5,972.04 | ↑ +39847% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $6,440.47 | ↑ +42980% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $8,621.93 | ↑ +57572% |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,906.40 | $21.61 – $8,367.40 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $12,169.30 | $11.55 – $10,046.92 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,906.40 | $21.61 – $8,367.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,906.40 | $21.61 – $4,810.90 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,906.40 | $21.61 – $4,836.88 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $5,906.40 | $21.61 – $4,829.02 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5,906.40 | $18.98 – $3,000.76 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,669.50 | $17.76 – $6,356.47 |