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Fusion of foot bones at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,179.80
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.
$4,892.00
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 $35,984.87 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 | $481.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $531.77 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $557.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $586.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $615.93 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $615.93 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $629.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $645.26 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $645.26 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $704.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Valor | All Products | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $709.03 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $744.48 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $779.93 | ↓ -75% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,042.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,042.69 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,243.06 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,368.68 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,446.42 | ↓ -55% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,511.99 | ↓ -52% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,902.99 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,922.32 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,112.29 | ↓ -34% |
| United | All Products | $2,276.63 | ↓ -28% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,416.65 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,446.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,648.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,648.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,648.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,852.04 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,935.20 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $3,246.83 | ↑ +2% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $3,417.72 | ↑ +7% |
| MMO | Traditional | $3,424.40 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $3,424.40 | ↑ +8% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,588.61 | ↑ +13% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,588.61 | ↑ +13% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,588.61 | ↑ +13% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $3,622.78 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $3,669.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $3,669.00 | ↑ +15% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $3,759.49 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Asa | $3,913.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $4,402.80 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $4,892.00 | ↑ +54% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $11,888.68 | ↑ +274% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $11,888.68 | ↑ +274% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $11,888.68 | ↑ +274% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $11,888.68 | ↑ +274% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,146.38 | ↑ +282% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $12,146.38 | ↑ +282% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,146.38 | ↑ +282% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,146.38 | ↑ +282% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,146.38 | ↑ +282% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,304.79 | ↑ +287% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,510.77 | ↑ +293% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $12,839.78 | ↑ +304% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $13,118.09 | ↑ +313% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $13,361.02 | ↑ +320% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $22,471.68 | ↑ +607% |
| MMO | NASCO | $22,471.68 | ↑ +607% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $30,587.02 | ↑ +862% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $31,264.79 | ↑ +883% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $35,984.87 | ↑ +1032% |
| 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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Fusion of foot bones at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,179.80 | $1.10 – $12,146.38 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,179.80 | $1.10 – $12,146.38 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $3,482.17 – $13,361.02 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $5,685.11 – $6,582.76 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,567.57 – $13,361.02 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,351.55 – $13,361.02 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,190.79 – $13,361.02 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $3,491.79 – $13,361.02 |