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Echo exam of eye at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$148.20
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.
$228.00
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 $409.57 with UNITED — 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 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | $1.65 | ↓ -99% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $37.89 | ↓ -74% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $39.88 | ↓ -73% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $39.88 | ↓ -73% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $42.27 | ↓ -71% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $43.87 | ↓ -70% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $49.41 | ↓ -67% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $54.68 | ↓ -63% |
| Oscar | All Products | $57.93 | ↓ -61% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $59.35 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $61.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $64.62 | ↓ -56% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $65.59 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $65.59 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $68.72 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $68.72 | ↓ -54% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $72.22 | ↓ -51% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $81.36 | ↓ -45% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $81.36 | ↓ -45% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $81.36 | ↓ -45% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $81.36 | ↓ -45% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Valor | All Products | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $81.72 | ↓ -45% |
| PPHP | All Products | $82.10 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $82.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $82.33 | ↓ -44% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $82.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $82.33 | ↓ -44% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $82.33 | ↓ -44% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $84.20 | ↓ -43% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $84.80 | ↓ -43% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $85.81 | ↓ -42% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $87.86 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $88.69 | ↓ -40% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $88.92 | ↓ -40% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $90.57 | ↓ -39% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $110.08 | ↓ -26% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $110.08 | ↓ -26% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $112.63 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $114.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $132.92 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $136.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Summacare | Premier | $155.08 | ↑ +5% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $155.90 | ↑ +5% |
| MMO | NASCO | $155.90 | ↑ +5% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $157.01 | ↑ +6% |
| MMO | Traditional | $159.60 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $159.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $166.71 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $171.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $171.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $182.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $205.20 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | International | $205.96 | ↑ +39% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $206.66 | ↑ +39% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $207.33 | ↑ +40% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $211.92 | ↑ +43% |
| United | All Products | $227.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $228.00 | ↑ +54% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $243.92 | ↑ +65% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $279.60 | ↑ +89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $279.60 | ↑ +89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $279.60 | ↑ +89% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $409.57 | ↑ +176% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo exam of eye at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $543.40 | $1.10 – $205.20 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $148.20 | $1.10 – $205.20 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $40.62 – $90.57 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $66.34 – $76.81 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $41.63 – $90.57 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $39.10 – $90.57 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $37.23 – $90.57 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $40.75 – $90.57 |