Contrast x-ray of ankle at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$17.48
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.
$76.00
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.
$19.95 with Amerihealth vs $978.28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $19.95 | ↑ +14% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $19.95 | ↑ +14% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $22.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $22.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $25.08 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $27.50 | ↑ +57% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $27.55 | ↑ +58% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $27.55 | ↑ +58% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $27.55 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $27.55 | ↑ +58% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $27.55 | ↑ +58% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $27.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $30.92 | ↑ +77% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $31.63 | ↑ +81% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $31.63 | ↑ +81% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $31.63 | ↑ +81% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $32.34 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $32.71 | ↑ +87% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $37.95 | ↑ +117% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $41.25 | ↑ +136% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $43.38 | ↑ +148% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $44.00 | ↑ +152% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $45.38 | ↑ +160% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $45.38 | ↑ +160% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $52.96 | ↑ +203% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $55.84 | ↑ +219% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $55.84 | ↑ +219% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $97.12 | ↑ +456% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $316.08 | ↑ +1708% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $316.08 | ↑ +1708% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $319.52 | ↑ +1728% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $343.57 | ↑ +1866% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $343.57 | ↑ +1866% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $343.57 | ↑ +1866% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $343.57 | ↑ +1866% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $343.57 | ↑ +1866% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $353.87 | ↑ +1924% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +1944% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $357.31 | ↑ +1944% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +1944% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $357.31 | ↑ +1944% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $357.31 | ↑ +1944% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $364.18 | ↑ +1983% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $364.18 | ↑ +1983% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $367.62 | ↑ +2003% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $367.62 | ↑ +2003% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $371.05 | ↑ +2023% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $374.49 | ↑ +2042% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $677.62 | ↑ +3777% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $730.77 | ↑ +4081% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $978.28 | ↑ +5497% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Contrast x-ray of ankle at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $1,380.84 | $19.95 – $1,139.97 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $896.40 | $36.02 – $1,269.90 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $765.60 | $245.64 – $421.63 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $896.40 | $36.02 – $2,006.79 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $514.80 | $110.49 – $374.53 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,649.60 | $107.18 – $374.53 |