ER Visit (level 3) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,242.15
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.
$1,911.00
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 $2,453.00 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 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $35.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $37.68 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $39.56 | ↓ -97% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $39.56 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $41.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $41.45 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $43.82 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $51.80 | ↓ -96% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $54.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $57.30 | ↓ -95% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $57.43 | ↓ -95% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $60.30 | ↓ -95% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $60.30 | ↓ -95% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $60.30 | ↓ -95% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $60.88 | ↓ -95% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $63.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $64.04 | ↓ -95% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Valor | All Products | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $69.06 | ↓ -94% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $72.51 | ↓ -94% |
| PPHP | All Products | $72.80 | ↓ -94% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $97.30 | ↓ -92% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $97.30 | ↓ -92% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $105.95 | ↓ -91% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $116.63 | ↓ -91% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $125.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Summacare | Premier | $137.52 | ↓ -89% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $140.23 | ↓ -89% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $140.88 | ↓ -89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $149.06 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $149.06 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $149.06 | ↓ -88% |
| United | All Products | $154.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Oscar | All Products | $178.89 | ↓ -86% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $255.84 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $255.84 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $255.84 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $255.84 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $258.26 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $258.26 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $258.26 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $258.26 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $258.26 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $264.80 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $266.01 | ↓ -79% |
| OHCP | All Products | $273.86 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $276.31 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $278.92 | ↓ -78% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $284.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $347.78 | ↓ -72% |
| OMAS | All Products | $352.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $410.43 | ↓ -67% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $420.28 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | NASCO | $420.28 | ↓ -66% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $422.40 | ↓ -66% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $465.00 | ↓ -63% |
| GMS | All Products | $492.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $492.80 | ↓ -60% |
| MMO | Traditional | $492.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $528.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $528.00 | ↓ -57% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $540.43 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Asa | $563.20 | ↓ -55% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $611.52 | ↓ -51% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $611.52 | ↓ -51% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $633.60 | ↓ -49% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $664.76 | ↓ -46% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $686.05 | ↓ -45% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $765.11 | ↓ -38% |
| AETNA | Acop | $812.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $859.95 | ↓ -31% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $928.75 | ↓ -25% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $948.00 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $955.50 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $995.63 | ↓ -20% |
| AETNA | International | $996.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,031.94 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,056.78 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $1,081.63 | ↓ -13% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,146.60 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,146.60 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $1,318.59 | ↑ +6% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,337.70 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $1,337.70 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,337.70 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,433.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,433.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $1,528.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,719.90 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,719.90 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,719.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,719.90 | ↑ +38% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,453.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| 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 | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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ER Visit (level 3) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Kings Mills Hospital | Mason | $2,008.80 | not published |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $554.95 | $639.60 – $820.82 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,242.15 | $1.10 – $1,719.90 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $1,242.15 | $58.51 – $1,719.90 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $1,242.15 | $59.95 – $1,719.90 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $1,242.15 | $56.32 – $1,719.90 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $1,242.15 | $53.61 – $1,719.90 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $1,242.15 | $58.67 – $1,719.90 |