Excl laa thrscp any method at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,720.60
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.
$5,724.00
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 $13,135.08 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 | $508.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $586.82 | ↓ -84% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $614.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $646.87 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $664.73 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $679.21 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $679.21 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $711.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $711.56 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $742.93 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | All Products | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $782.43 | ↓ -79% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $821.55 | ↓ -78% |
| PPHP | All Products | $844.59 | ↓ -77% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,099.33 | ↓ -70% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,099.33 | ↓ -70% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,408.51 | ↓ -62% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,408.51 | ↓ -62% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,435.83 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,454.47 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,595.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,596.16 | ↓ -57% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,038.39 | ↓ -45% |
| OHCP | All Products | $2,226.64 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,239.83 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products | $2,414.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,792.06 | ↓ -25% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,792.06 | ↓ -25% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,792.06 | ↓ -25% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,827.66 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,862.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $3,337.09 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $3,434.40 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $4,006.80 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $4,006.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $4,293.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $4,293.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $4,579.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $5,151.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $5,724.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $11,343.93 | ↑ +205% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $11,940.98 | ↑ +221% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $12,538.03 | ↑ +237% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $12,538.03 | ↑ +237% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $12,538.03 | ↑ +237% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $12,657.44 | ↑ +240% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $13,135.08 | ↑ +253% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | 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 | — |
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Excl laa thrscp any method at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,720.60 | $1.10 – $16,547.65 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,720.60 | $1.10 – $12,817.88 |
| Dublin Methodist Hospital | Dublin | $27,888.25 | $63,079.00 – $63,079.00 |
| Shelby Hospital | Shelby | $28,038.40 | not published |
| Berger Hospital | Circleville | $17,687.80 | $2,208.73 – $7,007.00 |
| Grant Medical Center | Columbus | $27,888.25 | $63,079.00 – $63,079.00 |
| Doctors Hospital | Columbus | $27,888.25 | $63,079.00 – $63,079.00 |
| Hardin Memorial Hospital | Kenton | $14,632.15 | not published |