Orbitocranial approach/skull at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$11,200.80
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.
$17,232.00
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 $17,232.00 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% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,839.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $1,936.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $1,956.39 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $2,033.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $2,033.25 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $2,130.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $2,130.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $2,218.07 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $2,558.36 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $2,859.34 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Valor | All Products | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $2,957.43 | ↓ -74% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $3,105.30 | ↓ -72% |
| PPHP | All Products | $3,250.62 | ↓ -71% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $3,594.14 | ↓ -68% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $3,783.30 | ↓ -66% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↓ -65% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↓ -65% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,972.47 | ↓ -65% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $4,010.30 | ↓ -64% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $4,161.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $4,300.15 | ↓ -62% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $4,300.15 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $4,378.65 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,479.94 | ↓ -51% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,479.94 | ↓ -51% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $5,554.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $6,033.16 | ↓ -46% |
| Summacare | Premier | $6,140.05 | ↓ -45% |
| OHCP | All Products | $6,703.25 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $7,927.54 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $8,512.61 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $8,616.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $8,710.97 | ↓ -22% |
| United | All Products | $9,388.70 | ↓ -16% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $10,046.26 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $10,339.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $10,921.49 | ↓ -2% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $10,921.49 | ↓ -2% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $10,921.49 | ↓ -2% |
| GMS | All Products | $12,062.40 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $12,062.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $12,924.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $12,924.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $13,785.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $15,508.80 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $17,232.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
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Orbitocranial approach/skull at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $11,200.80 | $1.10 – $15,508.80 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $11,200.80 | $1.10 – $15,508.80 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $3,854.64 – $3,928.07 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $6,293.24 – $7,286.91 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,949.19 – $4,572.74 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,710.06 – $4,295.86 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $3,532.10 – $4,089.80 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $3,865.30 – $4,475.61 |