Creatine isoforms at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL

631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 14, 2026 · Ingested Sep 30, 2026

$8.28

Cash price

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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.

$36.00

Gross charge

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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.

$7.83 with Highmark vs $28.07 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark Highmark My Blue Access $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Indemnity $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $7.83 ↓ -5%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue $7.83 ↓ -5%
Cigna Cigna Medicare $9.14 ↑ +10%
Univera Univera Essential Plan $10.09 ↑ +22%
Univera Univera Healthy New York $10.09 ↑ +22%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO $10.92 ↑ +32%
Highmark Highmark Complete Blue Medicare $10.92 ↑ +32%
Highmark Highmark Freedom Blue $11.04 ↑ +33%
Cigna Cigna Commercial $11.33 ↑ +37%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicaid $11.58 ↑ +40%
United Healthcare United Healthcare CHIP $11.58 ↑ +40%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP $11.87 ↑ +43%
Life Pittsburgh Life Pittsburgh Medicare $11.87 ↑ +43%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $11.87 ↑ +43%
American Health Plans American Health Plans Medicare $11.87 ↑ +43%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO $11.87 ↑ +43%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO $11.87 ↑ +43%
Devoted Medicare Devoted Health Medicare Advantage $12.23 ↑ +48%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $12.26 ↑ +48%
Highmark Highmark Security Blue $12.34 ↑ +49%
Aetna Aetna Medicare $12.34 ↑ +49%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue Medicare $12.34 ↑ +49%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO $12.34 ↑ +49%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare $12.34 ↑ +49%
Univera Univera Medicare $12.44 ↑ +50%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare $12.46 ↑ +50%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured $12.58 ↑ +52%
Humana Humana Commercial $12.58 ↑ +52%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP $12.70 ↑ +53%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP $12.82 ↑ +55%
Medical Mutual Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) $12.82 ↑ +55%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $12.91 ↑ +56%
Molina Molina Ohio $12.94 ↑ +56%
Univera Univera Commercial $14.27 ↑ +72%
Aetna Aetna Commercial $25.25 ↑ +205%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced $27.18 ↑ +228%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $28.07 ↑ +239%

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Creatine isoforms at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $9.36 $5.75 – $12.94

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