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Wedging of cast at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$291.20
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.
$448.00
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 $783.93 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 | $33.54 | ↓ -88% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $35.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $37.07 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $37.07 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $38.83 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $38.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $42.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $44.52 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $55.33 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $59.36 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $61.84 | ↓ -79% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $62.33 | ↓ -79% |
| PPHP | All Products | $65.30 | ↓ -78% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $83.58 | ↓ -71% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $87.98 | ↓ -70% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $92.26 | ↓ -68% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $92.38 | ↓ -68% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $92.38 | ↓ -68% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $92.38 | ↓ -68% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $93.26 | ↓ -68% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $96.78 | ↓ -67% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $111.78 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $113.84 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $121.09 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $122.04 | ↓ -58% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $130.52 | ↓ -55% |
| Summacare | Premier | $132.78 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Acop | $136.65 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $144.21 | ↓ -50% |
| OHCP | All Products | $174.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $221.31 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $224.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $234.32 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $234.32 | ↓ -20% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $244.37 | ↓ -16% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $245.39 | ↓ -16% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $245.39 | ↓ -16% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $245.39 | ↓ -16% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $245.39 | ↓ -16% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $253.98 | ↓ -13% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $261.18 | ↓ -10% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $264.61 | ↓ -9% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $264.61 | ↓ -9% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $264.61 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $264.61 | ↓ -9% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $264.61 | ↓ -9% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $265.02 | ↓ -9% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $268.52 | ↓ -8% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $268.80 | ↓ -8% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $272.55 | ↓ -6% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $285.78 | ↓ -2% |
| United | All Products | $289.41 | ↓ -1% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $291.07 | ↓ -0% |
| MMO | Traditional | $313.60 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $313.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $331.49 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $336.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $336.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $358.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $403.20 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $448.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $458.75 | ↑ +58% |
| MMO | NASCO | $458.75 | ↑ +58% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $666.34 | ↑ +129% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $681.11 | ↑ +134% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $783.93 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $794.30 | $1.10 – $1,099.80 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $291.20 | $1.10 – $403.20 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $89.64 – $291.07 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $146.35 – $169.46 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $91.84 – $291.07 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $86.28 – $291.07 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $82.14 – $291.07 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $89.89 – $291.07 |