Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral additional (both sides) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,123.55
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.
$3,267.00
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.
$0.01 with UNITED vs $3,267.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $28.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $29.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $31.44 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $31.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $32.93 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $32.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $36.19 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $37.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $47.33 | ↓ -98% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Valor | All Products | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -98% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $52.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $52.90 | ↓ -98% |
| PPHP | All Products | $55.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $78.63 | ↓ -96% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $101.69 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $102.47 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $104.54 | ↓ -95% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $108.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Premier | $113.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | All Products | $129.59 | ↓ -94% |
| OHCP | All Products | $198.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $199.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $199.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Acop | $229.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $251.94 | ↓ -88% |
| OMAS | All Products | $255.00 | ↓ -88% |
| MMO | NASCO | $275.40 | ↓ -87% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $275.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $290.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $297.33 | ↓ -86% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $306.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $310.28 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $342.81 | ↓ -84% |
| GMS | All Products | $357.00 | ↓ -83% |
| MMO | Traditional | $357.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $382.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $382.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Asa | $408.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $459.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $510.00 | ↓ -76% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $558.63 | ↓ -74% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $566.66 | ↓ -73% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $588.03 | ↓ -72% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $617.43 | ↓ -71% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $617.43 | ↓ -71% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $617.43 | ↓ -71% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $622.66 | ↓ -71% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $623.31 | ↓ -71% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $646.83 | ↓ -70% |
| United | All Products | $671.10 | ↓ -68% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $712.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $788.06 | ↓ -63% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $923.91 | ↓ -56% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,045.44 | ↓ -51% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,045.44 | ↓ -51% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $1,172.85 | ↓ -45% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,323.14 | ↓ -38% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,470.15 | ↓ -31% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,587.76 | ↓ -25% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,633.50 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $1,702.11 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,764.18 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,806.65 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $1,849.12 | ↓ -13% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,960.20 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,960.20 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $2,254.23 | ↑ +6% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $2,286.90 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,286.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $2,450.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,450.25 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,450.25 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | Acop | $2,451.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $2,613.60 | ↑ +23% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $2,860.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $2,940.30 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $2,940.30 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,940.30 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | International | $3,004.00 | ↑ +41% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $3,267.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral additional (both sides) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jewish Hospital | Cincinnati | $1,577.40 | not published |
| Anderson Hospital | Cincinnati | $10,384.27 | $1,902.97 – $1,941.03 |
| Kings Mills Hospital | Mason | $1,577.40 | not published |
| Mercy West Hospital | Cincinnati | $1,577.40 | not published |
| St Ritas Medical Center | Lima | $11,007.90 | $1,936.01 – $1,974.73 |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $1,268.10 | $1,534.20 – $2,199.02 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,123.55 | $0.01 – $2,940.30 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $2,123.55 | $0.01 – $2,940.30 |