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Explore/treat knee joint at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,565.20
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.
$2,408.00
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 $9,170.92 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 | $297.52 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $332.08 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $351.89 | ↓ -78% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $370.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $388.93 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $388.93 | ↓ -75% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $389.06 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $407.45 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $407.45 | ↓ -74% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $434.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Valor | All Products | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $442.77 | ↓ -72% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $464.91 | ↓ -70% |
| PPHP | All Products | $487.05 | ↓ -69% |
| Oscar | All Products | $611.87 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $640.73 | ↓ -59% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $640.73 | ↓ -59% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $805.21 | ↓ -49% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $903.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Summacare | Premier | $933.75 | ↓ -40% |
| OHCP | All Products | $936.71 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,187.99 | ↓ -24% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,189.55 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,204.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,305.40 | ↓ -17% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,403.86 | ↓ -10% |
| United | All Products | $1,406.96 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,444.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,627.32 | ↑ +4% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,627.32 | ↑ +4% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,627.32 | ↑ +4% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,685.60 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,685.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,806.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,806.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,926.40 | ↑ +23% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,971.00 | ↑ +26% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,074.74 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,167.20 | ↑ +38% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,178.48 | ↑ +39% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,178.48 | ↑ +39% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,178.48 | ↑ +39% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,199.22 | ↑ +41% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,282.21 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $2,408.00 | ↑ +54% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +92% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,997.95 | ↑ +92% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,997.95 | ↑ +92% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +92% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +98% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,095.56 | ↑ +98% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +98% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +98% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +98% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,102.88 | ↑ +98% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,188.43 | ↑ +104% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,237.79 | ↑ +107% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,343.21 | ↑ +114% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,405.12 | ↑ +118% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,526.53 | ↑ +253% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,526.53 | ↑ +253% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,795.25 | ↑ +398% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $7,967.98 | ↑ +409% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,170.92 | ↑ +486% |
| 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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Explore/treat knee joint at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,565.20 | $1.10 – $3,095.56 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,565.20 | $1.10 – $3,188.43 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $4,723.50 | $900.00 – $5,668.20 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $4,723.50 | $900.00 – $7,840.20 |
| University Hospitals Conneaut Medical Center | Conneaut | $3,228.00 | not published |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $4,723.50 | $3,095.56 – $5,572.02 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $4,723.50 | $3,095.56 – $5,572.02 |
| University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center | Geneva | $3,228.00 | not published |