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Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet cervical/thoracic 2nd level at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$426.40
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.
$656.00
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.
$0.01 with UNITED vs $3,004.00 with AETNA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $28.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $30.11 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $31.62 | ↓ -93% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $31.62 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $33.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $33.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $36.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $37.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $47.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Valor | All Products | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $50.23 | ↓ -88% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $52.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $53.49 | ↓ -87% |
| PPHP | All Products | $55.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $79.12 | ↓ -81% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $102.43 | ↓ -76% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $102.47 | ↓ -76% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $108.52 | ↓ -75% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $108.91 | ↓ -74% |
| Summacare | Premier | $114.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $118.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $127.05 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Acop | $129.30 | ↓ -70% |
| Oscar | All Products | $129.59 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $140.36 | ↓ -67% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $143.01 | ↓ -66% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $185.52 | ↓ -56% |
| OHCP | All Products | $198.39 | ↓ -53% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $200.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $200.95 | ↓ -53% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $209.92 | ↓ -51% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $209.92 | ↓ -51% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $235.50 | ↓ -45% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $235.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $251.94 | ↓ -41% |
| OMAS | All Products | $255.00 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $259.10 | ↓ -39% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $265.68 | ↓ -38% |
| MMO | NASCO | $275.40 | ↓ -35% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $275.40 | ↓ -35% |
| United | All Products | $279.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $295.20 | ↓ -31% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $297.33 | ↓ -30% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $306.00 | ↓ -28% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $318.82 | ↓ -25% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $322.69 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $328.00 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $341.78 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $354.24 | ↓ -17% |
| GMS | All Products | $357.00 | ↓ -16% |
| MMO | Traditional | $357.00 | ↓ -16% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $362.77 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $371.30 | ↓ -13% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $382.50 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $382.50 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $393.60 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $393.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Asa | $408.00 | ↓ -4% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $448.90 | ↑ +5% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $452.64 | ↑ +6% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $459.00 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $459.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $459.20 | ↑ +8% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $472.53 | ↑ +11% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $492.00 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $492.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $492.00 | ↑ +15% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $496.16 | ↑ +16% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $496.16 | ↑ +16% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $496.16 | ↑ +16% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $500.88 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $510.00 | ↑ +20% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $519.78 | ↑ +22% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $524.80 | ↑ +23% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $590.40 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $590.40 | ↑ +38% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $590.40 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $656.00 | ↑ +54% |
| AETNA | Acop | $2,451.00 | ↑ +475% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $2,860.00 | ↑ +571% |
| AETNA | International | $3,004.00 | ↑ +605% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | not published by hospital | — |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet cervical/thoracic 2nd level at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $426.40 | $0.01 – $654.83 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $426.40 | $0.01 – $590.40 |