Culture body fluid at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$56.98
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.
$74.00
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.
$5.69 with Highmark vs $20.28 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.
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 | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $5.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $6.64 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $6.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Jefferson Health Plans | Jefferson Health Plans | $6.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $6.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $6.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $7.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $7.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $7.93 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $7.93 | ↓ -86% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $7.94 | ↓ -86% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $7.94 | ↓ -86% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $7.94 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $8.02 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $8.18 | ↓ -86% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $8.62 | ↓ -85% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $8.88 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $8.90 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $8.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $8.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $8.96 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $8.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $8.96 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $9.04 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $9.05 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $9.14 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $9.14 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $9.22 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $9.31 | ↓ -84% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $9.31 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $9.38 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $9.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $9.52 | ↓ -83% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $10.35 | ↓ -82% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $10.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $11.04 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $11.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $11.04 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $11.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $18.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $19.73 | ↓ -65% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $20.28 | ↓ -64% |
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Culture body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $108.00 | $6.90 – $144.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $3.11 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $48.00 | $6.90 – $68.00 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $54.76 | $4.18 – $11.04 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $61.20 | $5.60 – $81.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $48.00 | $6.90 – $66.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $128.40 | $6.90 – $171.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $105.00 | $6.90 – $16.64 |