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Contrast exam thoracic aorta at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$14,244.10
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.
$21,914.00
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 $14,487.17 with UNITED — 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% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | $1.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $14.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $17.54 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $18.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $20.88 | ↓ -100% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Valor | All Products | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $23.38 | ↓ -100% |
| PPHP | All Products | $23.74 | ↓ -100% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $24.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $31.97 | ↓ -100% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $31.97 | ↓ -100% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $43.80 | ↓ -100% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $44.64 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Premier | $44.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $47.70 | ↓ -100% |
| Oscar | All Products | $49.80 | ↓ -100% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $58.76 | ↓ -100% |
| United | All Products | $64.58 | ↓ -100% |
| OHCP | All Products | $76.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $81.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $81.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $81.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $96.82 | ↓ -99% |
| OMAS | All Products | $98.00 | ↓ -99% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $105.84 | ↓ -99% |
| MMO | NASCO | $105.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $114.27 | ↓ -99% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $117.60 | ↓ -99% |
| GMS | All Products | $137.20 | ↓ -99% |
| MMO | Traditional | $137.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $147.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $147.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Asa | $156.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $164.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $173.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $176.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $181.85 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $181.85 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $190.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $190.51 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $196.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Acop | $203.04 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $787.47 | ↓ -94% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $828.92 | ↓ -94% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $870.37 | ↓ -94% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $870.37 | ↓ -94% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $870.37 | ↓ -94% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $878.66 | ↓ -94% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $911.81 | ↓ -94% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,908.23 | ↓ -80% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,908.23 | ↓ -80% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,908.23 | ↓ -80% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,908.23 | ↓ -80% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $2,987.22 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,987.22 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,987.22 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,987.22 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,987.22 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,010.02 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,076.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,140.89 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,226.20 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,285.94 | ↓ -77% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,522.42 | ↓ -47% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $7,689.10 | ↓ -46% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $8,849.94 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $14,487.17 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $14,244.10 | $1.10 – $19,546.20 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $14,116.70 | $0.87 – $19,546.20 |