Esophagoscopy retro balloon at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$165.37
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.
$719.00
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.
$208.36 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 Healthy New York | $208.36 | ↑ +26% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $208.36 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $222.90 | ↑ +35% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $231.50 | ↑ +40% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $231.50 | ↑ +40% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $239.68 | ↑ +45% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $239.68 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $246.87 | ↑ +49% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $254.06 | ↑ +54% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $254.06 | ↑ +54% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $261.51 | ↑ +58% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $263.65 | ↑ +59% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $291.03 | ↑ +76% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $306.41 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $310.58 | ↑ +88% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $319.70 | ↑ +93% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $319.70 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $319.70 | ↑ +93% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $319.70 | ↑ +93% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $319.70 | ↑ +93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $328.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $409.31 | ↑ +148% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $476.52 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $502.39 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $502.39 | ↑ +204% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $776.00 | ↑ +369% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $892.40 | ↑ +440% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $892.40 | ↑ +440% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $892.40 | ↑ +440% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,070.88 | ↑ +548% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,164.00 | ↑ +604% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +651% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +674% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +674% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $1,678.95 | ↑ +915% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $1,678.95 | ↑ +915% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $1,697.20 | ↑ +926% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1004% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1004% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $1,824.94 | ↑ +1004% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1048% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1048% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1048% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $1,897.94 | ↑ +1048% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $1,934.44 | ↑ +1070% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $1,934.44 | ↑ +1070% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $1,952.69 | ↑ +1081% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $1,952.69 | ↑ +1081% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $1,970.94 | ↑ +1092% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $1,989.19 | ↑ +1103% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $3,599.33 | ↑ +2077% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $3,881.65 | ↑ +2247% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $5,196.41 | ↑ +3042% |
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Esophagoscopy retro balloon at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $5,334.66 | $222.90 – $6,055.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,386.80 | $736.75 – $2,194.96 |