Echo stress at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,466.75
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.
$3,795.00
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 $3,153.00 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 | $41.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $49.66 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $54.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $60.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Valor | All Products | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $66.21 | ↓ -97% |
| PPHP | All Products | $69.00 | ↓ -97% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $69.52 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $90.71 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $90.71 | ↓ -96% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $98.28 | ↓ -96% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $103.45 | ↓ -96% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $108.62 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $108.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $113.80 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $113.80 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $130.21 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Premier | $130.34 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $135.07 | ↓ -95% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $149.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Oscar | All Products | $163.13 | ↓ -93% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $204.38 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products | $217.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $230.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $230.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $230.39 | ↓ -91% |
| OHCP | All Products | $249.74 | ↓ -90% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $280.48 | ↓ -89% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $295.24 | ↓ -88% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $310.00 | ↓ -87% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $310.00 | ↓ -87% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $310.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $312.95 | ↓ -87% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $317.15 | ↓ -87% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $318.97 | ↓ -87% |
| OMAS | All Products | $321.00 | ↓ -87% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $324.76 | ↓ -87% |
| MMO | NASCO | $346.68 | ↓ -86% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $346.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $374.29 | ↓ -85% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $385.20 | ↓ -84% |
| GMS | All Products | $449.40 | ↓ -82% |
| MMO | Traditional | $449.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $481.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $481.50 | ↓ -80% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $506.62 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $506.62 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $506.62 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $506.62 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Asa | $513.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $516.95 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $524.35 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $532.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $547.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $558.31 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $568.65 | ↓ -77% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $577.80 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $642.00 | ↓ -74% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $891.67 | ↓ -64% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,008.96 | ↓ -59% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,008.96 | ↓ -59% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $1,131.93 | ↓ -54% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,276.97 | ↓ -48% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,330.63 | ↓ -46% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,418.85 | ↓ -42% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,531.52 | ↓ -38% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,532.36 | ↓ -38% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,576.50 | ↓ -36% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $1,642.71 | ↓ -33% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,702.62 | ↓ -31% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,743.61 | ↓ -29% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $1,784.60 | ↓ -28% |
| AETNA | Acop | $1,891.80 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,891.80 | ↓ -23% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,891.80 | ↓ -23% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $2,175.57 | ↓ -12% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,207.10 | ↓ -11% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $2,207.10 | ↓ -11% |
| AETNA | International | $2,207.10 | ↓ -11% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $2,207.10 | ↓ -11% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,364.75 | ↓ -4% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,364.75 | ↓ -4% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,462.49 | ↓ -0% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $2,522.40 | ↑ +2% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $2,837.70 | ↑ +15% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $2,837.70 | ↑ +15% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,837.70 | ↑ +15% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $2,837.70 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $3,153.00 | ↑ +28% |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo stress at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $1,132.21 | $1,136.40 – $1,458.38 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,466.75 | $1.10 – $2,837.70 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $2,049.45 | $300.80 – $2,837.70 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $2,049.45 | $308.19 – $2,837.70 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $2,049.45 | $289.52 – $2,837.70 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $2,049.45 | $275.64 – $2,837.70 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $2,049.45 | $301.64 – $2,837.70 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $2,049.45 | $272.16 – $2,837.70 |