Incise skull/brain surgery at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$832.14
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.
$3,618.00
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.
$112.71 with Univera vs $17,542.63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $112.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $112.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $136.80 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $160.97 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $776.00 | ↓ -7% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $892.40 | ↑ +7% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $892.40 | ↑ +7% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $892.40 | ↑ +7% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $1,048.13 | ↑ +26% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $1,048.13 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,070.88 | ↑ +29% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,164.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $1,241.60 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $1,241.60 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +54% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +54% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,317.65 | ↑ +58% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $1,447.42 | ↑ +74% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $1,447.42 | ↑ +74% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $1,493.47 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $1,579.83 | ↑ +90% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $2,048.93 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $2,319.06 | ↑ +179% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $2,444.97 | ↑ +194% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $2,444.97 | ↑ +194% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $4,530.30 | ↑ +444% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $5,667.98 | ↑ +581% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $5,667.98 | ↑ +581% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $5,729.58 | ↑ +589% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $6,160.84 | ↑ +640% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $6,160.84 | ↑ +640% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $6,160.84 | ↑ +640% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $6,160.84 | ↑ +640% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $6,160.84 | ↑ +640% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $6,345.67 | ↑ +663% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $6,407.28 | ↑ +670% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $6,407.28 | ↑ +670% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $6,407.28 | ↑ +670% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $6,407.28 | ↑ +670% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $6,407.28 | ↑ +670% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $6,530.49 | ↑ +685% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $6,530.49 | ↑ +685% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $6,592.10 | ↑ +692% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $6,592.10 | ↑ +692% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $6,653.71 | ↑ +700% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $6,715.32 | ↑ +707% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $12,151.03 | ↑ +1360% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $13,104.11 | ↑ +1475% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $17,542.63 | ↑ +2008% |
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Incise skull/brain surgery at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $940.68 | $1,048.13 – $20,441.99 |