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1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,420.60
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.
$3,724.00
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 $16,592.38 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% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $520.92 | ↓ -78% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $548.34 | ↓ -77% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $575.76 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $575.76 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $603.17 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $603.17 | ↓ -75% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $619.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $690.74 | ↓ -71% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $810.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $905.68 | ↓ -63% |
| Valor | All Products | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $920.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $946.27 | ↓ -61% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $967.04 | ↓ -60% |
| PPHP | All Products | $1,013.09 | ↓ -58% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,383.20 | ↓ -43% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,448.64 | ↓ -40% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,581.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,839.66 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,862.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,878.82 | ↓ -22% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,944.83 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,171.09 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $2,212.39 | ↓ -9% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,234.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $2,366.18 | ↓ -2% |
| GMS | All Products | $2,606.80 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $2,606.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $2,614.17 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $2,793.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $2,793.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Acop | $2,795.76 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $2,979.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $3,351.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $3,513.02 | ↑ +45% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $3,513.02 | ↑ +45% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $3,594.14 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $3,724.00 | ↑ +54% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $3,783.30 | ↑ +56% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↑ +64% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↑ +64% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↑ +64% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $4,010.30 | ↑ +66% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $4,161.63 | ↑ +72% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $4,337.52 | ↑ +79% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $4,766.17 | ↑ +97% |
| United | All Products | $5,136.99 | ↑ +112% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,465.95 | ↑ +126% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $5,465.95 | ↑ +126% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,465.95 | ↑ +126% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $5,465.95 | ↑ +126% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,600.62 | ↑ +131% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,600.62 | ↑ +131% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,600.62 | ↑ +131% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,600.62 | ↑ +131% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $5,600.62 | ↑ +131% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,657.26 | ↑ +134% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,768.63 | ↑ +138% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,903.23 | ↑ +144% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $6,009.60 | ↑ +148% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $6,048.66 | ↑ +150% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,160.68 | ↑ +155% |
| MMO | NASCO | $9,999.36 | ↑ +313% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $9,999.36 | ↑ +313% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $14,103.47 | ↑ +483% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $14,415.98 | ↑ +496% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $16,592.38 | ↑ +585% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Optx mndblr fx wo ntrdntl at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,420.60 | $1.10 – $5,600.62 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $2,420.60 | $1.10 – $5,768.63 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $3,854.64 – $6,160.68 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $6,293.24 – $7,286.91 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,949.19 – $6,160.68 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,710.06 – $6,160.68 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,532.10 – $6,160.68 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $3,865.30 – $6,160.68 |