Self-mgmt educ/train 5-8 pt 30min at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$21.45
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.
$33.00
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 $41.05 with AMERIHEALTH — 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 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $6.34 | ↓ -70% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $8.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $8.39 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $9.27 | ↓ -57% |
| PPHP | All Products | $10.54 | ↓ -51% |
| OHCP | All Products | $12.84 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $13.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $13.10 | ↓ -39% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $15.91 | ↓ -26% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $16.30 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $16.50 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $17.82 | ↓ -17% |
| MMO | NASCO | $17.82 | ↓ -17% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $19.24 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $19.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Summacare | Premier | $19.91 | ↓ -7% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $23.10 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $23.10 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $23.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $23.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $24.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $24.75 | ↑ +15% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $26.15 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Asa | $26.40 | ↑ +23% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $26.63 | ↑ +24% |
| United | All Products | $27.64 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $29.70 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $33.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $33.28 | ↑ +55% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $33.28 | ↑ +55% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $33.28 | ↑ +55% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $35.45 | ↑ +65% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $37.32 | ↑ +74% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $37.32 | ↑ +74% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $39.19 | ↑ +83% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $39.19 | ↑ +83% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $39.19 | ↑ +83% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $39.56 | ↑ +84% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $41.05 | ↑ +91% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Valor | All Products | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Self-mgmt educ/train 5-8 pt 30min at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $115.56 | $139.80 – $179.41 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $54.60 | $1.10 – $75.60 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $54.60 | $14.31 – $75.60 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $54.60 | $14.31 – $75.60 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $54.60 | $13.05 – $75.60 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $54.60 | $14.31 – $75.60 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $54.60 | $13.05 – $75.60 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $54.60 | $14.31 – $75.60 |