IV Fluids (first hour) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$945.10
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.
$1,454.00
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 $1,454.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $18.15 | ↓ -98% |
| Oscar | All Products | $19.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $23.39 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $23.74 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $26.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $29.01 | ↓ -97% |
| OHCP | All Products | $29.18 | ↓ -97% |
| PPHP | All Products | $30.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $30.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Valor | All Products | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $31.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $32.07 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $32.07 | ↓ -97% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $32.74 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $33.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $33.59 | ↓ -96% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $37.05 | ↓ -96% |
| OMAS | All Products | $37.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $41.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $41.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $43.73 | ↓ -95% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $45.00 | ↓ -95% |
| GMS | All Products | $52.50 | ↓ -94% |
| MMO | Traditional | $52.50 | ↓ -94% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $55.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $56.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $56.25 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Premier | $56.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Asa | $60.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $63.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $67.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $75.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $77.96 | ↓ -92% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $79.39 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products | $82.39 | ↓ -91% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $95.42 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $105.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $105.52 | ↓ -89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $105.52 | ↓ -89% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $194.67 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $194.67 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $194.67 | ↓ -79% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $194.67 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $201.23 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $201.23 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $201.23 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $201.23 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $201.23 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $201.49 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $207.27 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $210.25 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $217.33 | ↓ -77% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $220.33 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $221.36 | ↓ -77% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $231.93 | ↓ -75% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $243.53 | ↓ -74% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $243.53 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $243.53 | ↓ -74% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $245.85 | ↓ -74% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $255.12 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | NASCO | $365.57 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $365.57 | ↓ -61% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $411.19 | ↓ -56% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $465.28 | ↓ -51% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $465.28 | ↓ -51% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $517.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $521.99 | ↓ -45% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $588.87 | ↓ -38% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $596.17 | ↓ -37% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $654.30 | ↓ -31% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $706.64 | ↓ -25% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $727.00 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $757.53 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $785.16 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $804.06 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $822.96 | ↓ -13% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $872.40 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $872.40 | ↓ -8% |
| AETNA | Acop | $872.40 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $1,003.26 | ↑ +6% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,017.80 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $1,017.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,017.80 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | International | $1,054.15 | ↑ +12% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,090.50 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,090.50 | ↑ +15% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,135.57 | ↑ +20% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $1,163.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,308.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,308.60 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,308.60 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,308.60 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $1,454.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | 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 | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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IV Fluids (first hour) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Jewish Hospital | Cincinnati | $478.80 | not published |
| Anderson Hospital | Cincinnati | $478.80 | not published |
| Clermont Hospital | Batavia | $478.80 | not published |
| Kings Mills Hospital | Mason | $478.80 | not published |
| Mercy West Hospital | Cincinnati | $478.80 | not published |
| St Ritas Medical Center | Lima | $499.20 | not published |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $121.01 | $139.20 – $192.85 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $945.10 | $1.10 – $1,308.60 |