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1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$650.00
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.
$1,000.00
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 $2,798.71 with AMERIHEALTH — 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 | $79.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $87.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $97.72 | ↓ -85% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $102.86 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $103.56 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $108.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $108.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $113.15 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $113.15 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $115.75 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $116.58 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $122.41 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $128.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $174.65 | ↓ -73% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $174.65 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $220.42 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | NASCO | $220.42 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $228.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $237.82 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Premier | $248.55 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $254.10 | ↓ -61% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $318.06 | ↓ -51% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $349.49 | ↓ -46% |
| United | All Products | $376.68 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $389.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $443.58 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $443.58 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $443.58 | ↓ -32% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $494.00 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $500.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $583.00 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $600.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $700.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $700.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $750.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $750.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $800.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $900.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,000.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,417.07 | ↑ +272% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,544.28 | ↑ +291% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,671.49 | ↑ +311% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,671.49 | ↑ +311% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,671.49 | ↑ +311% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,696.94 | ↑ +315% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,798.71 | ↑ +331% |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Excl laa opn oth px any meth 33268 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $650.00 | $1.10 – $3,525.83 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $650.00 | $1.10 – $2,731.12 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,592.26 – $2,641.64 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,232.22 – $4,900.47 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $2,655.84 – $3,075.18 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,495.02 – $2,888.97 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,375.34 – $2,750.40 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,599.43 – $3,009.86 |