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Echo exam of eye thickness at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$150.15
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.
$231.00
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 $124.90 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $4.69 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $5.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $6.14 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $6.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Valor | All Products | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $7.49 | ↓ -95% |
| PPHP | All Products | $7.80 | ↓ -95% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $7.86 | ↓ -95% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $8.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $8.70 | ↓ -94% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $9.14 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $9.14 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $9.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $9.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $10.31 | ↓ -93% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $10.31 | ↓ -93% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $14.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Summacare | Premier | $14.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $15.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Oscar | All Products | $15.75 | ↓ -90% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $16.30 | ↓ -89% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $19.27 | ↓ -87% |
| United | All Products | $21.18 | ↓ -86% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $22.63 | ↓ -85% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $22.63 | ↓ -85% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $22.63 | ↓ -85% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $22.63 | ↓ -85% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $23.42 | ↓ -84% |
| OHCP | All Products | $24.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $24.44 | ↓ -84% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $26.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $26.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $26.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $27.36 | ↓ -82% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $27.36 | ↓ -82% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $27.36 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $27.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $27.36 | ↓ -82% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $28.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $29.55 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $30.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $30.63 | ↓ -80% |
| OMAS | All Products | $31.00 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $33.48 | ↓ -78% |
| MMO | NASCO | $33.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $36.15 | ↓ -76% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $37.20 | ↓ -75% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $37.89 | ↓ -75% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $39.88 | ↓ -73% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $41.87 | ↓ -72% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $42.27 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Traditional | $43.40 | ↓ -71% |
| GMS | All Products | $43.40 | ↓ -71% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $43.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $46.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $46.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Asa | $49.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $55.80 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $62.00 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | International | $62.90 | ↓ -58% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $68.91 | ↓ -54% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $70.43 | ↓ -53% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $81.07 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $124.90 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo exam of eye thickness at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $150.15 | $1.10 – $152.10 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $109.85 | $0.87 – $152.10 |