Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus 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

$3.22

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$14.00

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.

$1.25 with Cigna vs $1.95 with Pennsylvania Health and Wellness — same scan, same building. Share

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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

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
Cigna Cigna Commercial $1.25 ↓ -61%
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial $1.30 ↓ -60%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid CHC $1.38 ↓ -57%
Amerihealth Amerihealth Medicaid HC $1.38 ↓ -57%
Highmark Highmark Together Blue $1.44 ↓ -55%
Highmark Highmark Connect Blue $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Indemnity $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Managed Care $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark My Blue Access $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark My Direct Blue $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Performance Blue $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Indemnity $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Social Mission Managed Care $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Blue High Performance $1.54 ↓ -52%
Highmark Highmark Community Blue $1.54 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial $1.63 ↓ -49%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Commercial $1.73 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid $1.73 ↓ -46%
Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC $1.95 ↓ -39%

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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $9.60 $0.80 – $13.16
UPMC Bedford Everett $38.40 $0.80 – $35.10
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $5.46 $1.25 – $1.95
UPMC Cole Coudersport $10.80 $1.26 – $5.60
UPMC East Monroeville $78.80 $0.80 – $31.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $101.60 $0.80 – $4.79
UPMC Northwest Seneca $40.40 $0.80 – $18.28
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $268.80 $0.80 – $17.95

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