Fetal hemoglobin rosette at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL

631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 14, 2026 · Ingested Sep 30, 2026

$61.60

Cash price

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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.

$80.00

Gross charge

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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.

$6.18 with Highmark vs $21.43 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Indemnity $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $6.18 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Blue Access $6.18 ↓ -90%
Cigna Cigna Medicare $7.21 ↓ -88%
Univera Univera Healthy New York $7.96 ↓ -87%
Univera Univera Essential Plan $7.96 ↓ -87%
Highmark Highmark Complete Blue Medicare $8.61 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO $8.61 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Freedom Blue $8.70 ↓ -86%
Cigna Cigna Commercial $9.13 ↓ -85%
Aetna Aetna Better Health CHIP $9.17 ↓ -85%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid CHC $9.17 ↓ -85%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid HC $9.17 ↓ -85%
Jefferson Health Plans Jefferson Health Plans $9.17 ↓ -85%
American Health Plans American Health Plans Medicare $9.36 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $9.36 ↓ -85%
Life Pittsburgh Life Pittsburgh Medicare $9.36 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP $9.36 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO $9.36 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO $9.36 ↓ -85%
Devoted Medicare Devoted Health Medicare Advantage $9.64 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $9.67 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO $9.73 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Security Blue $9.73 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue Medicare $9.73 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare $9.73 ↓ -84%
Aetna Aetna Medicare $9.73 ↓ -84%
Univera Univera Medicare $9.81 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare $9.83 ↓ -84%
Humana Humana Commercial $9.92 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured $9.92 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP $10.02 ↓ -84%
Medical Mutual Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) $10.11 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP $10.11 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $10.18 ↓ -83%
Molina Molina Ohio $10.20 ↓ -83%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC $10.55 ↓ -83%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids $10.55 ↓ -83%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC $10.55 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera Commercial $11.25 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC $12.65 ↓ -79%
Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC $13.75 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicaid $14.67 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Geisinger Medicaid HC $14.67 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Geisinger CHIP $14.67 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare United Healthcare CHIP $14.67 ↓ -76%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $17.16 ↓ -72%
Aetna Aetna Commercial $19.91 ↓ -68%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced $21.43 ↓ -65%

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Fetal hemoglobin rosette at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $105.60 $9.17 – $140.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $48.00 $9.17 – $68.00
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $59.20 $4.53 – $14.67
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $48.00 $9.17 – $68.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $141.00 $9.12 – $21.04
UPMC Hanover Hanover $48.00 $9.17 – $14.98
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $80.40 $8.38 – $17.56
UPMC Lititz Lititz $48.00 $9.17 – $14.98

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