Esophagoscop ultrasound exam at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$99.13
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.
$431.00
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.
$126.73 with Univera vs $5,196.41 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 |
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| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $126.73 | ↑ +28% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $126.73 | ↑ +28% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $159.06 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $164.33 | ↑ +66% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $172.55 | ↑ +74% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $172.55 | ↑ +74% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $186.36 | ↑ +88% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $187.65 | ↑ +89% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $188.98 | ↑ +91% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $188.98 | ↑ +91% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $188.98 | ↑ +91% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $198.50 | ↑ +100% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $216.92 | ↑ +119% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $226.78 | ↑ +129% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $238.28 | ↑ +140% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $238.28 | ↑ +140% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $238.28 | ↑ +140% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $238.28 | ↑ +140% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $238.28 | ↑ +140% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $246.50 | ↑ +149% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $247.32 | ↑ +149% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $271.14 | ↑ +174% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $271.14 | ↑ +174% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $292.07 | ↑ +195% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $307.92 | ↑ +211% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $307.92 | ↑ +211% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +1152% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,678.95 | ↑ +1594% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,678.95 | ↑ +1594% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,697.20 | ↑ +1612% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1741% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1741% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1741% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1741% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1741% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $1,879.69 | ↑ +1796% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1815% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1815% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1815% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1815% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1815% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,934.44 | ↑ +1851% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,934.44 | ↑ +1851% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,952.69 | ↑ +1870% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,952.69 | ↑ +1870% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,970.94 | ↑ +1888% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,989.19 | ↑ +1907% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $3,599.33 | ↑ +3531% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $3,881.65 | ↑ +3816% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $5,196.41 | ↑ +5142% |
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Esophagoscop ultrasound exam at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,959.80 | $180.76 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,330.80 | $180.76 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,128.80 | $180.76 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,414.00 | $180.76 – $1,935.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $221.85 – $6,068.83 |