Knee arthroscopy/surgery at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$449.19
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.
$1,953.00
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.
$19.00 with Amerihealth vs $8,887.94 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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| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $19.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $19.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $56.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $56.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $73.81 | ↓ -84% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $82.89 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $108.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $114.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $114.14 | ↓ -75% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $125.01 | ↓ -72% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $125.01 | ↓ -72% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $125.01 | ↓ -72% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $143.48 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $150.01 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $157.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $157.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $157.62 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $157.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $157.62 | ↓ -65% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $163.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $855.86 | ↑ +91% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $905.34 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $1,101.87 | ↑ +145% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $1,261.70 | ↑ +181% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $1,330.20 | ↑ +196% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $1,330.20 | ↑ +196% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,491.20 | ↑ +232% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $2,341.84 | ↑ +421% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,871.67 | ↑ +539% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,871.67 | ↑ +539% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,902.88 | ↑ +546% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $3,121.38 | ↑ +595% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $3,121.38 | ↑ +595% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $3,121.38 | ↑ +595% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $3,121.38 | ↑ +595% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $3,121.38 | ↑ +595% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $3,215.02 | ↑ +616% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +623% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +623% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $3,246.23 | ↑ +623% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,246.23 | ↑ +623% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,246.23 | ↑ +623% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,308.66 | ↑ +637% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,308.66 | ↑ +637% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,339.88 | ↑ +644% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,339.88 | ↑ +644% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,371.09 | ↑ +650% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,402.30 | ↑ +657% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $6,156.30 | ↑ +1271% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $6,639.17 | ↑ +1378% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $8,887.94 | ↑ +1879% |
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Knee arthroscopy/surgery at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $507.78 | $19.00 – $10,356.89 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $5,152.80 | $597.85 – $3,309.88 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $4,072.33 | $3,171.41 – $7,389.39 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $543.50 – $3,340.82 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $690.25 – $4,966.18 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $733.73 – $7,348.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $597.85 – $3,402.68 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $597.85 – $4,499.05 |