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Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,543.15
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.
$5,451.00
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 $4,944.00 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $74.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $77.72 | ↓ -98% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $95.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $97.41 | ↓ -97% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $100.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Valor | All Products | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $103.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $105.86 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $105.86 | ↓ -97% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $108.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $108.87 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $110.90 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $110.90 | ↓ -97% |
| PPHP | All Products | $113.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $162.84 | ↓ -95% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $209.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $211.38 | ↓ -94% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $223.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Premier | $233.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | All Products | $238.85 | ↓ -93% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $302.11 | ↓ -91% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $318.01 | ↓ -91% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $333.91 | ↓ -91% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $333.91 | ↓ -91% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $333.91 | ↓ -91% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $337.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $338.99 | ↓ -90% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $349.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $362.55 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Acop | $364.71 | ↓ -90% |
| OHCP | All Products | $365.66 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $400.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $413.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $413.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $464.36 | ↓ -87% |
| OMAS | All Products | $470.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $548.02 | ↓ -85% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $564.00 | ↓ -84% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $655.68 | ↓ -81% |
| MMO | Traditional | $658.00 | ↓ -81% |
| GMS | All Products | $658.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $705.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $705.00 | ↓ -80% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $720.48 | ↓ -80% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $730.00 | ↓ -79% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $730.00 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $730.00 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $730.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $741.65 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $741.65 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $741.65 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $741.65 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $741.65 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Asa | $752.00 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $755.55 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $763.90 | ↓ -78% |
| United | All Products | $776.53 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $788.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $800.98 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $815.81 | ↓ -77% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $846.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $920.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $940.00 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,367.30 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,367.30 | ↓ -61% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,398.16 | ↓ -61% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,582.08 | ↓ -55% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,582.08 | ↓ -55% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $1,774.90 | ↓ -50% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,909.01 | ↓ -46% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,002.32 | ↓ -43% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $2,197.21 | ↓ -38% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,224.80 | ↓ -37% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,402.78 | ↓ -32% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,472.00 | ↓ -30% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $2,575.82 | ↓ -27% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $2,669.76 | ↓ -25% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $2,734.03 | ↓ -23% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $2,798.30 | ↓ -21% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $2,966.40 | ↓ -16% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,966.40 | ↓ -16% |
| AETNA | Acop | $3,265.00 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $3,411.36 | ↓ -4% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $3,460.80 | ↓ -2% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,460.80 | ↓ -2% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,708.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,708.00 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $3,810.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $3,955.20 | ↑ +12% |
| AETNA | International | $4,001.00 | ↑ +13% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,449.60 | ↑ +26% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $4,449.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $4,449.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $4,449.60 | ↑ +26% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $4,944.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i 2+ regions at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $3,543.15 | $0.01 – $4,905.90 |