Mayo vasoactive intestinal peptide 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

$232.54

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.

$302.00

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.

$23.32 with Highmark vs $80.88 with Highmark — 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 Social Mission Indemnity $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Blue Access $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $23.32 ↓ -90%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue $23.32 ↓ -90%
Cigna Cigna Medicare $27.20 ↓ -88%
Univera Univera Healthy New York $30.03 ↓ -87%
Univera Univera Essential Plan $30.03 ↓ -87%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO $32.50 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Complete Blue Medicare $32.50 ↓ -86%
Highmark Highmark Freedom Blue $32.86 ↓ -86%
Cigna Cigna Commercial $33.99 ↓ -85%
American Health Plans American Health Plans Medicare $35.33 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP $35.33 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $35.33 ↓ -85%
Life Pittsburgh Life Pittsburgh Medicare $35.33 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO $35.33 ↓ -85%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO $35.33 ↓ -85%
Devoted Medicare Devoted Health Medicare Advantage $36.39 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $36.50 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO $36.74 ↓ -84%
Aetna Aetna Medicare $36.74 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Security Blue $36.74 ↓ -84%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue Medicare $36.74 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare $36.74 ↓ -84%
Univera Univera Medicare $37.04 ↓ -84%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare $37.10 ↓ -84%
Humana Humana Commercial $37.45 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured $37.45 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP $37.80 ↓ -84%
Medical Mutual Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) $38.16 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP $38.16 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $38.44 ↓ -83%
Molina Molina Ohio $38.51 ↓ -83%
Univera Univera Commercial $42.46 ↓ -82%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $48.35 ↓ -79%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid HC $48.83 ↓ -79%
Jefferson Health Plans Jefferson Health Plans $48.83 ↓ -79%
Aetna Aetna Better Health CHIP $48.83 ↓ -79%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid CHC $48.83 ↓ -79%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids $56.15 ↓ -76%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC $56.15 ↓ -76%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC $56.15 ↓ -76%
Highmark Wholecare Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC $67.39 ↓ -71%
Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC $73.25 ↓ -69%
Aetna Aetna Commercial $75.15 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Medicaid $78.13 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Geisinger CHIP $78.13 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare United Healthcare CHIP $78.13 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Geisinger Medicaid HC $78.13 ↓ -66%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced $80.88 ↓ -65%

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Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $477.00 $34.92 – $636.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $568.80 $12.75 – $853.20
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