Tongue base vol reduction at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$239.89
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.
$1,043.00
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.
$306.60 with Univera vs $8,883.72 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 |
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| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $306.60 | ↑ +28% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $306.60 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare | $323.18 | ↑ +35% |
| Allwell | Allwell by Wellcare | $347.51 | ↑ +45% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $347.51 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $357.94 | ↑ +49% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Duel Plus PA HMO D-SNP | $368.36 | ↑ +54% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $368.36 | ↑ +54% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $382.26 | ↑ +59% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $384.81 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $402.82 | ↑ +68% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $426.11 | ↑ +78% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $450.88 | ↑ +88% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $591.07 | ↑ +146% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $666.35 | ↑ +178% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $702.53 | ↑ +193% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $702.53 | ↑ +193% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $2,776.75 | ↑ +1058% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $2,776.75 | ↑ +1058% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $2,870.31 | ↑ +1097% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $2,870.31 | ↑ +1097% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $2,901.51 | ↑ +1110% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $3,119.90 | ↑ +1201% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $3,119.90 | ↑ +1201% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $3,119.90 | ↑ +1201% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1253% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1253% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1253% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $3,244.69 | ↑ +1253% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $3,275.89 | ↑ +1266% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $3,307.09 | ↑ +1279% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $3,307.09 | ↑ +1279% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $3,338.29 | ↑ +1292% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $3,338.29 | ↑ +1292% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $3,369.49 | ↑ +1305% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $3,400.69 | ↑ +1318% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $6,153.38 | ↑ +2465% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $6,636.02 | ↑ +2666% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $8,883.72 | ↑ +3603% |
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Tongue base vol reduction at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $271.18 | $323.18 – $10,351.98 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $2,172.33 | $270.48 – $6,674.52 |