Remove brain canal fluid at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$51.98
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.
$226.00
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.
$65.02 with Univera vs $1,280.40 with Amerihealth — 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 Essential Plan | $65.02 | ↑ +25% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $65.02 | ↑ +25% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $78.91 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $91.01 | ↑ +75% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $92.86 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $96.27 | ↑ +85% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $101.55 | ↑ +95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $101.55 | ↑ +95% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $126.65 | ↑ +144% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $127.66 | ↑ +146% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $140.23 | ↑ +170% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $140.23 | ↑ +170% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $140.23 | ↑ +170% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $140.23 | ↑ +170% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $140.23 | ↑ +170% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $155.36 | ↑ +199% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $163.79 | ↑ +215% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $163.79 | ↑ +215% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $261.26 | ↑ +403% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $261.26 | ↑ +403% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $264.10 | ↑ +408% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $283.98 | ↑ +446% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $283.98 | ↑ +446% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $283.98 | ↑ +446% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $283.98 | ↑ +446% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $283.98 | ↑ +446% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $292.50 | ↑ +463% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $295.34 | ↑ +468% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $295.34 | ↑ +468% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $295.34 | ↑ +468% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $295.34 | ↑ +468% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $295.34 | ↑ +468% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $301.02 | ↑ +479% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $301.02 | ↑ +479% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $303.86 | ↑ +485% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $303.86 | ↑ +485% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $306.70 | ↑ +490% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $309.54 | ↑ +495% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $321.63 | ↑ +519% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $560.09 | ↑ +978% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $604.02 | ↑ +1062% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $776.00 | ↑ +1393% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $808.61 | ↑ +1456% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $892.40 | ↑ +1617% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $892.40 | ↑ +1617% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $892.40 | ↑ +1617% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $1,070.88 | ↑ +1960% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $1,164.00 | ↑ +2139% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $1,241.60 | ↑ +2289% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +2363% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $1,280.40 | ↑ +2363% |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $961.20 | $155.31 – $1,361.70 |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $961.20 | $287.47 – $1,732.75 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $961.20 | $279.18 – $1,732.75 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $961.20 | $255.09 – $1,732.75 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $961.20 | $295.23 – $1,732.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $961.20 | $243.75 – $892.40 |