Myelography l-s spine at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$25.76
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.
$112.00
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.
$23.10 with Amerihealth vs $2,164.21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $23.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $23.10 | ↓ -10% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $29.04 | ↑ +13% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $31.90 | ↑ +24% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $31.90 | ↑ +24% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $31.90 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $31.90 | ↑ +24% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $31.90 | ↑ +24% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $32.64 | ↑ +27% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $32.64 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $33.00 | ↑ +28% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $37.95 | ↑ +47% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $37.95 | ↑ +47% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $37.95 | ↑ +47% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $40.32 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $45.54 | ↑ +77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $46.02 | ↑ +79% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $47.24 | ↑ +83% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $48.69 | ↑ +89% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $49.50 | ↑ +92% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $52.80 | ↑ +105% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $54.45 | ↑ +111% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $54.45 | ↑ +111% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $63.37 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $74.29 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $78.33 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $78.33 | ↑ +204% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $148.65 | ↑ +477% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $699.25 | ↑ +2614% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $699.25 | ↑ +2614% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $706.85 | ↑ +2644% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $760.05 | ↑ +2851% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $760.05 | ↑ +2851% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $760.05 | ↑ +2851% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $760.05 | ↑ +2851% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $760.05 | ↑ +2851% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $782.86 | ↑ +2939% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +2969% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +2969% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $790.46 | ↑ +2969% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $790.46 | ↑ +2969% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $790.46 | ↑ +2969% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $805.66 | ↑ +3028% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $805.66 | ↑ +3028% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $813.26 | ↑ +3057% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $813.26 | ↑ +3057% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $820.86 | ↑ +3087% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $828.46 | ↑ +3116% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $1,499.05 | ↑ +5719% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $1,616.63 | ↑ +6176% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $2,164.21 | ↑ +8301% |
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Myelography l-s spine at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $2,055.30 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $3,054.72 | $23.10 – $2,521.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $2,055.30 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $1,207.58 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $613.20 | $60.50 – $493.83 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $1,214.11 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,906.80 | $60.50 – $813.49 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,666.20 | $60.50 – $828.55 |