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App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm addl 100sq cm at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$260.00
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.
$400.00
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.
$1.10 with Zing Health vs $1,350.24 with AMERIHEALTH — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $27.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $28.90 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $30.35 | ↓ -88% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $30.35 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $31.79 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $31.79 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $34.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $36.18 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $44.98 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $48.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $50.27 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $50.65 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $53.06 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $74.76 | ↓ -71% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $94.25 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $98.41 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $101.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $107.96 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $117.46 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Acop | $122.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $125.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $138.79 | ↓ -47% |
| OHCP | All Products | $155.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $189.86 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $189.86 | ↓ -27% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $197.60 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $200.00 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $216.00 | ↓ -17% |
| MMO | NASCO | $216.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $229.25 | ↓ -12% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $233.20 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $240.00 | ↓ -8% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $251.90 | ↓ -3% |
| United | All Products | $271.50 | ↑ +4% |
| GMS | All Products | $280.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $280.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $300.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $300.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $319.06 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Asa | $320.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $360.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $400.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,166.12 | ↑ +349% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,227.49 | ↑ +372% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,288.86 | ↑ +396% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,288.86 | ↑ +396% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,288.86 | ↑ +396% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,301.14 | ↑ +400% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,350.24 | ↑ +419% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm addl 100sq cm at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $3,567.20 | $0.01 – $4,939.20 |