Scan proc spinal at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$149.27
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.
$649.00
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.
$183.20 with Univera vs $453.22 with United Healthcare — 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 |
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| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $183.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $183.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $222.36 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $222.96 | ↑ +49% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $222.96 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $240.76 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $254.68 | ↑ +71% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $261.66 | ↑ +75% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $367.55 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $429.88 | ↑ +188% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $453.22 | ↑ +204% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $453.22 | ↑ +204% |
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Scan proc spinal at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $168.74 | $222.96 – $367.55 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $5,062.50 | $184.26 – $418.76 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $187.12 – $388.85 |