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Exploration of spinal fusion at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,209.05
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.
$4,937.00
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 $20,338.07 with ANTHEM — 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 | $512.46 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $576.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $620.83 | ↓ -81% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $653.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $670.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $686.18 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $686.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $718.85 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $718.85 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $748.98 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Valor | All Products | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $768.94 | ↓ -76% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $807.39 | ↓ -75% |
| PPHP | All Products | $845.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,109.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,109.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,254.49 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,403.16 | ↓ -56% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,421.06 | ↓ -56% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,421.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,568.64 | ↓ -51% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,608.34 | ↓ -50% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,920.49 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,054.54 | ↓ -36% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,257.57 | ↓ -30% |
| United | All Products | $2,433.21 | ↓ -24% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,438.88 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,468.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,817.35 | ↓ -12% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,817.35 | ↓ -12% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,817.35 | ↓ -12% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,878.27 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,962.20 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $3,026.00 | ↓ -6% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $3,185.26 | ↓ -1% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,344.52 | ↑ +4% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,344.52 | ↑ +4% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,344.52 | ↑ +4% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $3,376.38 | ↑ +5% |
| MMO | Traditional | $3,455.90 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $3,455.90 | ↑ +8% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $3,503.79 | ↑ +9% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $3,702.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $3,702.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $3,949.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $4,443.30 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $4,937.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,864.94 | ↑ +114% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,864.94 | ↑ +114% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,864.94 | ↑ +114% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $6,864.94 | ↑ +114% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,864.94 | ↑ +114% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $7,070.89 | ↑ +120% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $7,414.13 | ↑ +131% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $7,551.43 | ↑ +135% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $17,287.29 | ↑ +439% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $17,670.35 | ↑ +451% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $20,338.07 | ↑ +534% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | 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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Exploration of spinal fusion at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,209.05 | $1.10 – $6,864.94 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,209.05 | $1.10 – $7,070.89 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $3,245.32 – $7,551.43 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $5,298.44 – $6,135.03 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,324.91 – $7,551.43 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,123.59 – $18,878.58 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,973.77 – $7,551.43 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $3,254.29 – $18,878.58 |