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Decompression of thigh/knee at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,762.80
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.
$2,712.00
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 $9,170.92 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% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $294.32 | ↓ -83% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $309.81 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $325.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $325.30 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $340.79 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $340.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $341.68 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $383.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $446.81 | ↓ -75% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $499.38 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Valor | All Products | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $511.06 | ↓ -71% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $536.61 | ↓ -70% |
| PPHP | All Products | $562.17 | ↓ -68% |
| Oscar | All Products | $689.12 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $734.77 | ↓ -58% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $734.77 | ↓ -58% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $893.75 | ↓ -49% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,042.56 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,054.97 | ↓ -40% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,072.35 | ↓ -39% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,339.73 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,356.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,366.39 | ↓ -22% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,501.42 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,581.10 | ↓ -10% |
| United | All Products | $1,618.24 | ↓ -8% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,627.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,866.15 | ↑ +6% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,866.15 | ↑ +6% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,866.15 | ↑ +6% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,898.40 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,898.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $2,034.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $2,034.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $2,169.60 | ↑ +23% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,435.09 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,440.80 | ↑ +38% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,563.25 | ↑ +45% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,691.41 | ↑ +53% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,691.41 | ↑ +53% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,691.41 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $2,712.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,717.05 | ↑ +54% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,819.58 | ↑ +60% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +70% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,997.95 | ↑ +70% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,997.95 | ↑ +70% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +70% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +76% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,095.56 | ↑ +76% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +76% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +76% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +76% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,102.88 | ↑ +76% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,188.43 | ↑ +81% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,237.79 | ↑ +84% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,343.21 | ↑ +90% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,405.12 | ↑ +93% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,526.53 | ↑ +214% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,526.53 | ↑ +214% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,795.25 | ↑ +342% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $7,967.98 | ↑ +352% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,170.92 | ↑ +420% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Decompression of thigh/knee at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,762.80 | $1.10 – $3,552.11 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,762.80 | $1.10 – $3,188.43 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,611.58 – $3,405.12 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,263.77 – $4,937.00 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $2,675.64 – $3,405.12 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,513.62 – $3,405.12 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,393.05 – $3,405.12 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,618.80 – $3,405.12 |