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CT guidance for needle placement at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,815.45
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.
$2,793.00
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.
$0.87 with AETNA vs $2,193.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AETNA | Acop | $0.87 | ↓ -100% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $1.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | $1.65 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $42.47 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $49.61 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $55.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $62.07 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Valor | All Products | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $66.15 | ↓ -96% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $69.46 | ↓ -96% |
| PPHP | All Products | $70.57 | ↓ -96% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $88.43 | ↓ -95% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $93.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $93.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $94.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $94.24 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $97.73 | ↓ -95% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $97.73 | ↓ -95% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $97.73 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $97.85 | ↓ -95% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $98.66 | ↓ -95% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $99.61 | ↓ -95% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $102.39 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $110.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $110.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $115.34 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $115.34 | ↓ -94% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $131.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Summacare | Premier | $133.29 | ↓ -93% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $134.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | All Products | $152.46 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $173.68 | ↓ -90% |
| United | All Products | $190.90 | ↓ -89% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $211.40 | ↓ -88% |
| AETNA | International | $232.38 | ↓ -87% |
| OHCP | All Products | $233.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $239.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $239.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $239.34 | ↓ -87% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $250.89 | ↓ -86% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $296.40 | ↓ -84% |
| OMAS | All Products | $300.00 | ↓ -83% |
| MMO | NASCO | $324.00 | ↓ -82% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $324.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $349.80 | ↓ -81% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $360.00 | ↓ -80% |
| GMS | All Products | $420.00 | ↓ -77% |
| MMO | Traditional | $420.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $450.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $450.00 | ↓ -75% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $478.07 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Asa | $480.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $540.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $600.00 | ↓ -67% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $620.18 | ↓ -66% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $701.76 | ↓ -61% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $701.76 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $787.29 | ↓ -57% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $888.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $986.85 | ↓ -46% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,065.80 | ↓ -41% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,096.50 | ↓ -40% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $1,142.55 | ↓ -37% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,184.22 | ↓ -35% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,212.73 | ↓ -33% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $1,241.24 | ↓ -32% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,315.80 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,315.80 | ↓ -28% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $1,513.17 | ↓ -17% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,535.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,535.10 | ↓ -15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,644.75 | ↓ -9% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,644.75 | ↓ -9% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $1,754.40 | ↓ -3% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,844.31 | ↑ +2% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,973.70 | ↑ +9% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,973.70 | ↑ +9% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,973.70 | ↑ +9% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,973.70 | ↑ +9% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $2,193.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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CT guidance for needle placement at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,815.45 | $1.10 – $1,973.70 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $1,425.45 | $0.87 – $1,973.70 |