Lactic acid 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

$76.23

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.

$99.00

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.

$7.63 with Highmark vs $28.07 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 Performance Blue $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Blue Access $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $7.63 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Indemnity $7.63 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid HC $8.00 ↓ -90%
Jefferson Health Plans Jefferson Health Plans $8.00 ↓ -90%
Aetna Aetna Better Health CHIP $8.00 ↓ -90%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid CHC $8.00 ↓ -90%
Cigna Cigna Medicare $8.91 ↓ -88%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC $9.20 ↓ -88%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids $9.20 ↓ -88%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC $9.20 ↓ -88%
Univera Univera Healthy New York $9.83 ↓ -87%
Univera Univera Essential Plan $9.83 ↓ -87%
Highmark Highmark Complete Blue Medicare $10.64 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO $10.64 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Freedom Blue $10.76 ↓ -86%
Cigna Cigna Commercial $11.02 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC $11.04 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $11.57 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO $11.57 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP $11.57 ↓ -85%
Life Pittsburgh Life Pittsburgh Medicare $11.57 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO $11.57 ↓ -85%
American Health Plans American Health Plans Medicare $11.57 ↓ -85%
Devoted Medicare Devoted Health Medicare Advantage $11.92 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $11.95 ↓ -84%
Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC $12.00 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Security Blue $12.03 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO $12.03 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue Medicare $12.03 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare $12.03 ↓ -84%
Aetna Aetna Medicare $12.03 ↓ -84%
Univera Univera Medicare $12.13 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare $12.15 ↓ -84%
Humana Humana Commercial $12.26 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured $12.26 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP $12.38 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP $12.50 ↓ -84%
Medical Mutual Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) $12.50 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $12.59 ↓ -83%
Molina Molina Ohio $12.61 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicaid $12.80 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Geisinger Medicaid HC $12.80 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare United Healthcare CHIP $12.80 ↓ -83%
Geisinger Geisinger CHIP $12.80 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera Commercial $13.91 ↓ -82%
Aetna Aetna Commercial $24.61 ↓ -68%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced $26.49 ↓ -65%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $28.07 ↓ -63%

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Lactic acid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $85.20 $8.00 – $113.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $4.17 – $112.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $58.80 $8.00 – $83.30
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $73.26 $5.60 – $12.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $107.40 $7.52 – $143.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $58.80 $8.00 – $90.50
UPMC East Monroeville $225.00 $8.00 – $300.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $207.00 $8.00 – $29.02

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