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Remove spine eltrd plate at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,146.00
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.
$4,840.00
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 $9,799.05 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 | $414.73 | ↓ -87% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $436.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $458.39 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $458.39 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $480.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $480.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $530.98 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $617.51 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $694.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $776.05 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Valor | All Products | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $823.34 | ↓ -74% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $864.51 | ↓ -73% |
| PPHP | All Products | $882.24 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,148.10 | ↓ -64% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,148.10 | ↓ -64% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,229.84 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,236.72 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,666.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,679.61 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,720.70 | ↓ -45% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,811.26 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,882.76 | ↓ -40% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,901.82 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,901.82 | ↓ -40% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,901.82 | ↓ -40% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,919.94 | ↓ -39% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,992.39 | ↓ -37% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,133.56 | ↓ -32% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,344.41 | ↓ -25% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,390.96 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,420.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | All Products | $2,526.80 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,821.72 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,904.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,915.93 | ↓ -7% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,915.93 | ↓ -7% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,915.93 | ↓ -7% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,177.58 | ↑ +1% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,177.58 | ↑ +1% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,177.58 | ↑ +1% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,177.58 | ↑ +1% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,288.79 | ↑ +5% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,307.59 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,307.59 | ↑ +5% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,307.59 | ↑ +5% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,307.59 | ↑ +5% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,307.59 | ↑ +5% |
| GMS | All Products | $3,388.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $3,388.00 | ↑ +8% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,406.81 | ↑ +8% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,431.78 | ↑ +9% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,572.19 | ↑ +14% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $3,630.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $3,630.00 | ↑ +15% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,638.34 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Asa | $3,872.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $4,356.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $4,840.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,809.66 | ↑ +85% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,809.66 | ↑ +85% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $8,329.16 | ↑ +165% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,513.73 | ↑ +171% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,799.05 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Remove spine eltrd plate at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,146.00 | $1.10 – $4,356.00 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,146.00 | $1.10 – $4,356.00 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,845.42 – $3,638.34 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $3,012.90 – $3,488.62 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,890.68 – $3,638.34 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,776.20 – $3,638.34 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,691.00 – $3,638.34 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,850.51 – $3,638.34 |