Frozen cell preparation at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$8.28
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.
$36.00
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.
$7.98 with Highmark vs $27.68 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 My Blue Access | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $7.98 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $9.31 | ↑ +12% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $10.28 | ↑ +24% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $10.28 | ↑ +24% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $11.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $11.12 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $11.24 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $11.65 | ↑ +41% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $11.79 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $11.79 | ↑ +42% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $12.09 | ↑ +46% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $12.45 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $12.57 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $12.57 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $12.57 | ↑ +52% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $12.57 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $12.57 | ↑ +52% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $12.69 | ↑ +53% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $12.79 | ↑ +54% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $12.82 | ↑ +55% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $12.82 | ↑ +55% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $12.94 | ↑ +56% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $13.06 | ↑ +58% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $13.06 | ↑ +58% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $13.18 | ↑ +59% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $13.72 | ↑ +66% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $16.18 | ↑ +95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $17.08 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $25.72 | ↑ +211% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $27.68 | ↑ +234% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Frozen cell preparation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $132.60 | $11.95 – $168.00 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $34.04 | $5.86 – $13.18 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $63.00 | $11.32 – $27.08 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $138.00 | $8.84 – $27.08 |