Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (without contrast) at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$2,122.12
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.
$2,756.00
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.
$57.76 with Univera vs $662.14 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 Healthy New York | $57.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $57.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $71.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $72.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $72.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $81.52 | ↓ -96% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $83.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $86.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $91.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $99.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $99.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $99.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $99.98 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $99.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $112.28 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $134.98 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $142.31 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $142.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $187.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $213.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $213.94 | ↓ -90% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $215.28 | ↓ -90% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $215.28 | ↓ -90% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $215.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $216.26 | ↓ -90% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $232.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $232.54 | ↓ -89% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $232.54 | ↓ -89% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $232.54 | ↓ -89% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $232.54 | ↓ -89% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $239.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $241.84 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $241.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $241.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $241.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $241.84 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $246.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $246.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $248.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $248.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $251.14 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $253.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $258.34 | ↓ -88% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $262.13 | ↓ -88% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $280.80 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $299.52 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $308.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $308.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $458.64 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $494.61 | ↓ -77% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $662.14 | ↓ -69% |
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $187.20 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,705.20 | $83.15 – $2,557.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,656.00 | $228.92 – $2,346.00 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $2,039.44 | $72.40 – $771.58 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,032.00 | $223.32 – $1,376.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,656.00 | $235.40 – $2,346.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,940.80 | $231.07 – $5,254.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,623.00 | $183.52 – $1,345.46 |