Dch validity tests at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$22.33
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.
$29.00
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.
$2.30 with Highmark vs $7.97 with Highmark — 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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| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $2.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $2.68 | ↓ -88% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $2.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $2.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $3.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $3.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $3.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $3.46 | ↓ -85% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $3.48 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $3.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Jefferson Health Plans | Jefferson Health Plans | $3.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $3.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $3.57 | ↓ -84% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $3.58 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $3.59 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $3.62 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $3.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $3.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3.69 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3.69 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $3.76 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3.76 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $3.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3.79 | ↓ -83% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $4.11 | ↓ -82% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $4.11 | ↓ -82% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $4.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $4.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $4.93 | ↓ -78% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $5.35 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $5.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $5.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $5.71 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $5.71 | ↓ -74% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $6.22 | ↓ -72% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $7.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $7.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $7.97 | ↓ -64% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Dch validity tests at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $18.60 | $3.44 – $24.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $37.20 | $1.26 – $55.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $25.20 | $3.45 – $35.70 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $21.46 | $1.69 – $5.71 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $19.80 | $2.26 – $26.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $25.20 | $2.40 – $26.26 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $53.40 | $3.44 – $71.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $19.80 | $3.44 – $6.95 |