Ghs hgb stability-thal 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

$6.44

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.

$28.00

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.

$6.25 with Highmark vs $29.62 with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — 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 My Blue Access $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Indemnity $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $6.25 ↓ -3%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue $6.25 ↓ -3%
Cigna Cigna Medicare $7.29 ↑ +13%
Univera Univera Essential Plan $8.05 ↑ +25%
Univera Univera Healthy New York $8.05 ↑ +25%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO $8.71 ↑ +35%
Highmark Highmark Complete Blue Medicare $8.71 ↑ +35%
Highmark Highmark Freedom Blue $8.81 ↑ +37%
Cigna Cigna Commercial $9.13 ↑ +42%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicaid $9.25 ↑ +44%
United Healthcare United Healthcare CHIP $9.25 ↑ +44%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP $9.47 ↑ +47%
Life Pittsburgh Life Pittsburgh Medicare $9.47 ↑ +47%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $9.47 ↑ +47%
American Health Plans American Health Plans Medicare $9.47 ↑ +47%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO $9.47 ↑ +47%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO $9.47 ↑ +47%
Devoted Medicare Devoted Health Medicare Advantage $9.75 ↑ +51%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $9.78 ↑ +52%
Highmark Highmark Security Blue $9.85 ↑ +53%
Aetna Aetna Medicare $9.85 ↑ +53%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue Medicare $9.85 ↑ +53%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO $9.85 ↑ +53%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare $9.85 ↑ +53%
Univera Univera Medicare $9.93 ↑ +54%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare $9.94 ↑ +54%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured $10.04 ↑ +56%
Humana Humana Commercial $10.04 ↑ +56%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP $10.13 ↑ +57%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP $10.23 ↑ +59%
Medical Mutual Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) $10.23 ↑ +59%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $10.30 ↑ +60%
Molina Molina Ohio $10.32 ↑ +60%
Univera Univera Commercial $11.38 ↑ +77%
Aetna Aetna Commercial $20.14 ↑ +213%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced $21.68 ↑ +237%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $29.62 ↑ +360%

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Ghs hgb stability-thal at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $59.94 $4.59 – $10.32
UPMC Hamot Erie $32.40 $3.16 – $10.23
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $85.20 $1.76 – $10.23
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $18.60 $1.84 – $10.42
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $21.60 $1.75 – $10.42
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $24.00 $1.76 – $10.88
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $436.20 $1.85 – $10.88

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