Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$40.95
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.
$63.00
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 $63.00 with AETNA — 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 | ↓ -97% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2.09 | ↓ -95% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2.20 | ↓ -95% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $2.20 | ↓ -95% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2.31 | ↓ -94% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2.31 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2.31 | ↓ -94% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2.33 | ↓ -94% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2.42 | ↓ -94% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $3.02 | ↓ -93% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Acop | $4.20 | ↓ -90% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $5.17 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $6.75 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $7.73 | ↓ -81% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $9.09 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.09 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $9.09 | ↓ -78% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.34 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.34 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.34 | ↓ -77% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $9.34 | ↓ -77% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.34 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.41 | ↓ -77% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.62 | ↓ -77% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $9.62 | ↓ -77% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $10.09 | ↓ -75% |
| Oscar | All Products | $10.16 | ↓ -75% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $10.27 | ↓ -75% |
| United | All Products | $11.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $11.66 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $11.66 | ↓ -72% |
| OHCP | All Products | $15.56 | ↓ -62% |
| MMO | NASCO | $16.13 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $16.13 | ↓ -61% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $17.82 | ↓ -56% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $19.76 | ↓ -52% |
| OMAS | All Products | $20.00 | ↓ -51% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $20.16 | ↓ -51% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $20.16 | ↓ -51% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $20.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $20.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $20.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $20.79 | ↓ -49% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $22.62 | ↓ -45% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $23.32 | ↓ -43% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $24.00 | ↓ -41% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $24.04 | ↓ -41% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Summacare | Premier | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| GMS | All Products | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| MMO | Traditional | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $28.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $28.35 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $30.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $30.00 | ↓ -27% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $30.62 | ↓ -25% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $31.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Asa | $32.00 | ↓ -22% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $32.53 | ↓ -21% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $32.82 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $34.02 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $34.84 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $35.66 | ↓ -13% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $36.00 | ↓ -12% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $37.80 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $37.80 | ↓ -8% |
| AETNA | Acop | $37.80 | ↓ -8% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $38.27 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $40.00 | ↓ -2% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $43.47 | ↑ +6% |
| AETNA | International | $44.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $44.10 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $44.10 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $44.10 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $47.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $47.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $50.40 | ↑ +23% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $56.70 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $56.70 | ↑ +38% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $56.70 | ↑ +38% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $56.70 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $63.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Valor | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| PPHP | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
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Blood Draw (Venipuncture) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jewish Hospital | Cincinnati | $18.00 | not published |
| Anderson Hospital | Cincinnati | $18.00 | not published |
| Clermont Hospital | Batavia | $18.00 | not published |
| Kings Mills Hospital | Mason | $18.00 | not published |
| Mercy West Hospital | Cincinnati | $18.00 | not published |
| St Ritas Medical Center | Lima | $12.60 | not published |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $19.35 | $1.20 – $6.30 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $40.95 | $1.10 – $56.70 |