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Corneal smear at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$382.20
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.
$588.00
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 $1,252.10 with ANTHEM — 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $60.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $62.24 | ↓ -84% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $64.48 | ↓ -83% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $67.87 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $71.26 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $71.26 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $74.66 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $74.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $79.65 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Valor | All Products | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $82.98 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $87.13 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $89.02 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $91.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $131.59 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $139.95 | ↓ -63% |
| Oscar | All Products | $149.41 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $149.68 | ↓ -61% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $157.33 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Acop | $159.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $165.37 | ↓ -57% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $165.61 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $169.28 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $173.89 | ↓ -55% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $173.89 | ↓ -55% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $173.89 | ↓ -55% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $174.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $175.55 | ↓ -54% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $182.17 | ↓ -52% |
| Summacare | Premier | $191.15 | ↓ -50% |
| OHCP | All Products | $228.73 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $277.49 | ↓ -27% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $290.47 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $294.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $304.91 | ↓ -20% |
| United | All Products | $328.64 | ↓ -14% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $334.22 | ↓ -13% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $334.22 | ↓ -13% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $342.80 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $352.80 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $368.71 | ↓ -4% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $368.71 | ↓ -4% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $368.71 | ↓ -4% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $368.71 | ↓ -4% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $380.14 | ↓ -1% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $381.61 | ↓ -0% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $398.20 | ↑ +4% |
| GMS | All Products | $411.60 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $411.60 | ↑ +8% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $422.64 | ↑ +11% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $422.64 | ↑ +11% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $422.64 | ↑ +11% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $422.64 | ↑ +11% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $422.64 | ↑ +11% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $435.31 | ↑ +14% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $441.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $441.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $456.45 | ↑ +19% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $464.90 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Asa | $470.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $529.20 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $588.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $680.96 | ↑ +78% |
| MMO | NASCO | $680.96 | ↑ +78% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $1,064.28 | ↑ +178% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,087.86 | ↑ +185% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,252.10 | ↑ +228% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Corneal smear at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,193.40 | $0.01 – $1,652.40 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $382.20 | $1.10 – $529.20 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $315.75 | $93.04 – $760.74 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $315.75 | $168.40 – $1,070.41 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $315.75 | $422.64 – $760.74 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $315.75 | $422.64 – $760.74 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $315.75 | $422.64 – $760.74 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $315.75 | $422.64 – $760.74 |