Upper GI Barium X-ray (barium and gas) at GROVE CITY HOSPITAL
631 NORTH BROAD STREET EXT, GROVE CITY, PA · Ahn · · NPI 1023000296
$716.10
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.
$930.00
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.
$27.83 with Amerihealth vs $487.65 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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| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas D-SNP Medicare | $27.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas Medicare (NY) | $27.83 | ↓ -96% |
| Univera | Univera Essential Plan | $34.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Univera | Univera Healthy New York | $34.82 | ↓ -95% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | PA Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $34.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger Medicaid HC | $38.42 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas CHC Medicaid | $38.42 | ↓ -95% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Caritas HC Medicaid | $38.42 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicaid | $38.42 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Geisinger CHIP | $38.42 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Aetna Better Health CHIP | $40.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Univera | Univera Medicare | $43.02 | ↓ -94% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid HC | $46.00 | ↓ -94% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Kids | $46.00 | ↓ -94% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for You Medicaid CHC | $46.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue | $48.11 | ↓ -93% |
| Univera | Univera Commercial | $50.41 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Indemnity | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Social Mission Managed Care | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Connect Blue | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Blue High Performance | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Indemnity | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark Managed Care | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Blue Access | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark | Highmark My Direct Blue | $50.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicaid HC | $55.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Pennsylvania Health and Wellness | Pennsylvania Health and Wellness Medicaid CHC | $60.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare CHIP | $64.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid CHC | $66.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Amerihealth | Amerihealth Medicaid HC | $66.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Cigna Commercial | $67.72 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Navigate Nexus Commercial | $81.89 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Commercial | $86.34 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Of OH Medicaid | $86.34 | ↓ -88% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Commercial | $124.03 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark | Highmark Complete Blue Medicare | $157.56 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare PPO | $157.56 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark | Highmark Freedom Blue | $159.27 | ↓ -78% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare HMO | $171.26 | ↓ -76% |
| Life Pittsburgh | Life Pittsburgh Medicare | $171.26 | ↓ -76% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare PPO | $171.26 | ↓ -76% |
| American Health Plans | American Health Plans Medicare | $171.26 | ↓ -76% |
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for Life Medicare Specialty Plan D-SNP | $171.26 | ↓ -76% |
| Devoted Medicare | Devoted Health Medicare Advantage | $176.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Together Blue Medicare | $178.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Community Blue Medicare HMO | $178.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark | Highmark Security Blue | $178.11 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare | $178.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Aetna Medicare | $178.11 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Humana Commercial | $181.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare | Highmark Wholecare Medicare Assured | $181.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Cigna Medicare | $183.25 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare I-SNP | $183.25 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | United Healthcare Medicare D-SNP | $184.96 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Molina Ohio | $186.67 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark | Highmark Performance Blue Enhanced | $337.77 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Aetna Commercial | $364.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Medical Mutual | Medical Mutual Commercial (Cigna Network) | $487.65 | ↓ -32% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Upper GI Barium X-ray (barium and gas) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $372.60 | $40.00 – $496.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $497.40 | $61.23 – $746.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $427.80 | $52.40 – $606.05 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $688.20 | $27.83 – $568.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $406.20 | $69.83 – $541.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $427.80 | $52.40 – $606.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $674.40 | $73.15 – $899.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $690.00 | $73.15 – $270.53 |