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Ecg external < 48 hours scanning analysis w/report at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$487.50
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.
$750.00
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 $750.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $19.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $23.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $25.83 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $28.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $31.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Valor | All Products | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $31.90 | ↓ -93% |
| PPHP | All Products | $32.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $33.31 | ↓ -93% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $33.50 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $34.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $34.98 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $36.64 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $36.64 | ↓ -92% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $45.48 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $45.48 | ↓ -91% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $54.88 | ↓ -89% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $54.88 | ↓ -89% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $54.88 | ↓ -89% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $54.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $55.81 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $55.81 | ↓ -89% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $55.81 | ↓ -89% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $55.81 | ↓ -89% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $55.81 | ↓ -89% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $56.81 | ↓ -88% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $57.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $59.28 | ↓ -88% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $60.28 | ↓ -88% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $61.39 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Premier | $62.00 | ↓ -87% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $64.14 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $65.08 | ↓ -87% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $68.77 | ↓ -86% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $68.83 | ↓ -86% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $72.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $74.08 | ↓ -85% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $76.01 | ↓ -84% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $76.01 | ↓ -84% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $76.01 | ↓ -84% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $76.73 | ↓ -84% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $79.63 | ↓ -84% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $96.72 | ↓ -80% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $100.95 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | NASCO | $103.94 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $103.94 | ↓ -79% |
| United | All Products | $107.22 | ↓ -78% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $109.44 | ↓ -78% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $109.44 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $115.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $115.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $115.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $122.78 | ↓ -75% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $138.51 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $143.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $153.90 | ↓ -68% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $165.35 | ↓ -66% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $166.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $168.95 | ↓ -65% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $171.00 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $178.18 | ↓ -63% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $184.68 | ↓ -62% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $189.13 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $190.58 | ↓ -61% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $193.57 | ↓ -60% |
| AETNA | Acop | $205.20 | ↓ -58% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $205.20 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $205.20 | ↓ -58% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $235.98 | ↓ -52% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $239.40 | ↓ -51% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $239.40 | ↓ -51% |
| AETNA | International | $239.40 | ↓ -51% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $239.40 | ↓ -51% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $256.50 | ↓ -47% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $256.50 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $267.10 | ↓ -45% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $273.60 | ↓ -44% |
| OHCP | All Products | $291.75 | ↓ -40% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $307.80 | ↓ -37% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $307.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $307.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $307.80 | ↓ -37% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $342.00 | ↓ -30% |
| OMAS | All Products | $375.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $437.25 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $450.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $525.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $525.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $562.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $562.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $600.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $675.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $750.00 | ↑ +54% |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ecg external < 48 hours scanning analysis w/report at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $487.50 | $1.10 – $675.00 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $222.30 | $55.07 – $307.80 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $222.30 | $53.07 – $307.80 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $222.30 | $53.07 – $307.80 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $222.30 | $55.07 – $307.80 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $222.30 | $53.07 – $307.80 |
| lodi hospital | Lodi | $222.30 | $59.40 – $307.80 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $222.30 | $53.07 – $307.80 |