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Removal of heel spur at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,445.60
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.
$2,224.00
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 $9,170.92 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 | $175.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $185.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $194.41 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $194.41 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $203.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $203.67 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $225.08 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $251.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $294.33 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $328.96 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Valor | All Products | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $335.21 | ↓ -77% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $351.97 | ↓ -76% |
| PPHP | All Products | $368.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $482.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | All Products | $565.12 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $615.48 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $637.60 | ↓ -56% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $681.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $683.83 | ↓ -53% |
| Summacare | Premier | $706.39 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Acop | $725.52 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $753.39 | ↓ -48% |
| OHCP | All Products | $865.14 | ↓ -40% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,098.66 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,112.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,224.72 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,224.72 | ↓ -15% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,270.46 | ↓ -12% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,296.59 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,334.40 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,392.99 | ↓ -4% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,396.01 | ↓ -3% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,466.30 | ↑ +1% |
| United | All Products | $1,504.62 | ↑ +4% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,539.62 | ↑ +7% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,539.62 | ↑ +7% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,539.62 | ↑ +7% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,554.28 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,556.80 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,556.80 | ↑ +8% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,612.93 | ↑ +12% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,668.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,668.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,731.94 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,779.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,001.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $2,224.00 | ↑ +54% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,997.95 | ↑ +107% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +107% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,997.95 | ↑ +107% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,997.95 | ↑ +107% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +114% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +114% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +114% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,095.56 | ↑ +114% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,095.56 | ↑ +114% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,102.88 | ↑ +115% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,188.43 | ↑ +121% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,237.79 | ↑ +124% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,343.21 | ↑ +131% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,405.12 | ↑ +136% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,526.53 | ↑ +282% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,526.53 | ↑ +282% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,795.25 | ↑ +439% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $7,967.98 | ↑ +451% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,170.92 | ↑ +534% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal of heel spur at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,445.60 | $1.10 – $3,095.56 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,445.60 | $1.10 – $3,188.43 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,493.95 – $3,405.12 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,439.08 – $2,824.20 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,530.58 – $3,405.12 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,437.91 – $3,405.12 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,368.94 – $3,405.12 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,498.07 – $3,405.12 |