Strapping of chest at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$11.50
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.
$50.00
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.
$14.94 with Univera vs $432.23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $14.94 | ↑ +30% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $14.94 | ↑ +30% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $15.49 | ↑ +35% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $16.66 | ↑ +45% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $16.66 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $17.16 | ↑ +49% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $17.66 | ↑ +54% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $17.66 | ↑ +54% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $18.33 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $18.75 | ↑ +63% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $19.56 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $19.84 | ↑ +73% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $21.97 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $29.04 | ↑ +153% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $34.58 | ↑ +201% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $34.83 | ↑ +203% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $36.46 | ↑ +217% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $36.46 | ↑ +217% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $36.57 | ↑ +218% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $36.57 | ↑ +218% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $40.05 | ↑ +248% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $40.05 | ↑ +248% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $40.05 | ↑ +248% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $40.14 | ↑ +249% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $40.14 | ↑ +249% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $45.98 | ↑ +300% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $48.07 | ↑ +318% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $50.50 | ↑ +339% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $50.50 | ↑ +339% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $50.50 | ↑ +339% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $50.50 | ↑ +339% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $50.50 | ↑ +339% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $52.25 | ↑ +354% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $55.73 | ↑ +385% |
| Martin's Point | Martin's Point | $75.00 | ↑ +552% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $106.19 | ↑ +823% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $139.65 | ↑ +1114% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $139.65 | ↑ +1114% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $141.17 | ↑ +1128% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $151.80 | ↑ +1220% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $151.80 | ↑ +1220% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $151.80 | ↑ +1220% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $157.87 | ↑ +1273% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $157.87 | ↑ +1273% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $157.87 | ↑ +1273% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $157.87 | ↑ +1273% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $160.90 | ↑ +1299% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $160.90 | ↑ +1299% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $162.42 | ↑ +1312% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $162.42 | ↑ +1312% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $163.94 | ↑ +1326% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $165.46 | ↑ +1339% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $299.39 | ↑ +2503% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $322.87 | ↑ +2708% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $432.23 | ↑ +3659% |
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Strapping of chest at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $378.60 | $44.23 – $536.35 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $13.00 | $15.49 – $503.67 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $225.00 | $14.41 – $105.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $378.60 | $44.23 – $536.35 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $378.60 | $44.23 – $241.18 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $378.60 | $44.23 – $242.48 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $378.60 | $44.23 – $242.08 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $378.60 | $38.31 – $150.43 |