Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$4.83
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.
$21.00
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.
$2.87 with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center vs $4.97 with United Healthcare — 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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| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $2.87 | ↓ -41% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $3.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $3.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $3.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $4.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $4.30 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $4.54 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $4.70 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $4.97 | ↑ +3% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $4.97 | ↑ +3% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $16.60 | $1.97 – $25.61 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $76.20 | $1.97 – $85.50 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $6.37 | $2.87 – $4.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $6.00 | $2.77 – $8.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $153.60 | $1.97 – $153.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $96.00 | $1.97 – $10.51 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $76.40 | $1.97 – $34.54 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $71.80 | $1.97 – $33.92 |