Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at mercy hospital
1320 Mercy Drive Northwest, Canton, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1366433195
$1,848.60
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.
$2,844.00
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.
$0.01 with UNITED vs $3,004.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $0.01 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $64.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $66.27 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $66.27 | ↓ -96% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $66.71 | ↓ -96% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $68.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $69.95 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $71.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $71.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $86.66 | ↓ -95% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Medicare Advantage | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $93.27 | ↓ -95% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $96.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $96.85 | ↓ -95% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $97.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Premier | $97.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Perennial Health | Medicare Advantage | $100.73 | ↓ -95% |
| The Health Plan | All Products PCP | $102.60 | ↓ -94% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Specialty Physicians | $107.26 | ↓ -94% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Radiation Oncology Physicians | $121.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Oscar | All Products | $253.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $357.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $382.98 | ↓ -79% |
| OHCP | All Products | $388.61 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Acop | $404.08 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $409.60 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $452.53 | ↓ -76% |
| OMAS | All Products | $499.50 | ↓ -73% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $514.13 | ↓ -72% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $571.26 | ↓ -69% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $571.26 | ↓ -69% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $593.48 | ↓ -68% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $593.48 | ↓ -68% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $593.48 | ↓ -68% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $599.40 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $611.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $616.96 | ↓ -67% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $620.13 | ↓ -66% |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $623.15 | ↓ -66% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $638.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $640.96 | ↓ -65% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $651.14 | ↓ -65% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $651.14 | ↓ -65% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $668.21 | ↓ -64% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $682.14 | ↓ -63% |
| MMO | Traditional | $699.30 | ↓ -62% |
| GMS | All Products | $699.30 | ↓ -62% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $742.46 | ↓ -60% |
| United | All Products | $742.46 | ↓ -60% |
| Immergrun | All Products | $749.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $749.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Asa | $799.20 | ↓ -57% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $804.28 | ↓ -56% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $899.10 | ↓ -51% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $910.08 | ↓ -51% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $910.08 | ↓ -51% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $961.27 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $999.00 | ↓ -46% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,073.41 | ↓ -42% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $1,086.41 | ↓ -41% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,254.24 | ↓ -32% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,279.80 | ↓ -31% |
| CIGNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,342.37 | ↓ -27% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $1,369.95 | ↓ -26% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,382.18 | ↓ -25% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,422.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Immergrun | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,422.00 | ↓ -23% |
| ANTHEM | Exchange | $1,450.44 | ↓ -22% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $1,535.76 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $1,572.73 | ↓ -15% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,611.69 | ↓ -13% |
| The Health Plan | PPO | $1,815.61 | ↓ -2% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,990.80 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,990.80 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,133.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,133.00 | ↑ +15% |
| The Health Plan | Self-Funded ASO | $2,388.96 | ↑ +29% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $2,559.60 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $2,559.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $2,559.60 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,559.60 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $2,844.00 | ↑ +54% |
| The Health Plan | POS | $2,844.00 | ↑ +54% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $2,844.00 | ↑ +54% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $2,860.00 | ↑ +55% |
| AETNA | International | $3,004.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
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| Jewish Hospital | Cincinnati | $3,819.66 | $611.32 – $623.55 |
| Anderson Hospital | Cincinnati | $14,692.56 | $611.32 – $1,641.71 |
| Clermont Hospital | Batavia | $5,952.00 | $611.32 – $623.55 |
| Kings Mills Hospital | Mason | $3,651.00 | $611.32 – $623.55 |
| Mercy West Hospital | Cincinnati | $12,359.28 | $621.93 – $634.37 |
| St Ritas Medical Center | Lima | $11,522.31 | $621.93 – $634.37 |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $1,136.18 | $192.85 – $1,469.93 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,848.60 | $0.01 – $2,559.60 |