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Emg thor paraspinal without t1/t2 at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,493.05
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.
$2,297.00
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 $2,149.00 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 | $11.86 | ↓ -99% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $14.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $15.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $17.33 | ↓ -99% |
| Valor | All Products | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $19.20 | ↓ -99% |
| PPHP | All Products | $19.70 | ↓ -99% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $20.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $26.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $26.02 | ↓ -98% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $32.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Premier | $37.21 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | All Products | $37.61 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $39.17 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $48.82 | ↓ -97% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $48.84 | ↓ -97% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $49.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $51.39 | ↓ -97% |
| United | All Products | $51.62 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $53.96 | ↓ -96% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $53.96 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $56.53 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $56.53 | ↓ -96% |
| OHCP | All Products | $57.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $66.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $66.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $66.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $73.11 | ↓ -95% |
| OMAS | All Products | $74.00 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $79.92 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | NASCO | $79.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $86.28 | ↓ -94% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $88.80 | ↓ -94% |
| GMS | All Products | $103.60 | ↓ -93% |
| MMO | Traditional | $103.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $111.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $111.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Asa | $118.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $133.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $148.00 | ↓ -90% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $163.82 | ↓ -89% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $204.28 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $204.28 | ↓ -86% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $204.28 | ↓ -86% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $204.28 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $204.28 | ↓ -86% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $210.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $220.62 | ↓ -85% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $224.71 | ↓ -85% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $287.73 | ↓ -81% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $287.73 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $287.73 | ↓ -81% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $287.73 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $297.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $310.75 | ↓ -79% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $310.96 | ↓ -79% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $327.33 | ↓ -78% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $343.70 | ↓ -77% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $343.70 | ↓ -77% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $343.70 | ↓ -77% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $346.97 | ↓ -77% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $360.06 | ↓ -76% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $525.82 | ↓ -65% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $605.20 | ↓ -59% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $607.74 | ↓ -59% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $687.68 | ↓ -54% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $687.68 | ↓ -54% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $771.49 | ↓ -48% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $870.35 | ↓ -42% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $967.05 | ↓ -35% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,044.41 | ↓ -30% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,074.50 | ↓ -28% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $1,119.63 | ↓ -25% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,160.46 | ↓ -22% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,188.40 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $1,216.33 | ↓ -19% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,289.40 | ↓ -14% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,289.40 | ↓ -14% |
| AETNA | Acop | $1,289.40 | ↓ -14% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $1,482.81 | ↓ -1% |
| AETNA | International | $1,504.30 | ↑ +1% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $1,504.30 | ↑ +1% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,504.30 | ↑ +1% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,504.30 | ↑ +1% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,611.75 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,611.75 | ↑ +8% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,678.37 | ↑ +12% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $1,719.20 | ↑ +15% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,934.10 | ↑ +30% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,934.10 | ↑ +30% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,934.10 | ↑ +30% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,934.10 | ↑ +30% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $2,149.00 | ↑ +44% |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Emg thor paraspinal without t1/t2 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,493.05 | $1.10 – $1,934.10 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,493.05 | $1.10 – $351.36 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $383.25 | $112.93 – $459.90 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $383.25 | $204.28 – $517.39 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $383.25 | $204.28 – $367.70 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $383.25 | $204.28 – $367.70 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $383.25 | $204.28 – $367.70 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $383.25 | $204.28 – $367.70 |