Str markers specimen anal at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$681.45
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.
$885.00
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.
$153.82 with Highmark vs $533.59 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.
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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| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $153.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $179.46 | ↓ -74% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $198.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $198.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $214.42 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $214.42 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $216.76 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $224.10 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $227.47 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $227.47 | ↓ -67% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $233.07 | ↓ -66% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $240.06 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $240.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $242.39 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $242.39 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $242.39 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $242.39 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $242.39 | ↓ -64% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $244.72 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $247.05 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $247.05 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $249.38 | ↓ -63% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $251.72 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $251.72 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $253.58 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $254.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $274.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $495.74 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $533.59 | ↓ -22% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $262.80 | $219.00 – $384.07 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $505.20 | $115.35 – $715.70 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $654.90 | $112.90 – $254.05 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $505.20 | $168.40 – $1,872.14 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,709.40 | $230.35 – $384.07 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $265.20 | $211.37 – $251.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $505.20 | $186.24 – $1,872.14 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,709.40 | $208.67 – $437.36 |