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Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at cleveland clinic main campus
9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1679525919
$6,729.45
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.
$10,353.00
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 $54,351.12 with MMO — 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% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | $3.19 | ↓ -100% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $981.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $1,076.06 | ↓ -84% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,113.94 | ↓ -83% |
| Paramount | Managed Medicaid | $1,207.75 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $1,231.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $1,231.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $1,282.88 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $1,289.83 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $1,289.83 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $1,312.16 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $1,433.81 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | Medicare Advantage | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | All Products | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,434.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare Advantage | $1,477.78 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $1,506.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Devoted Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,509.27 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | Medicare Advantage | $1,549.52 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $1,578.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana Military | All Products | $1,914.28 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | All Products Transplant | $1,930.72 | ↓ -71% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $2,139.26 | ↓ -68% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $2,139.26 | ↓ -68% |
| Oscar | All Products | $2,630.70 | ↓ -61% |
| CC EHP | All Products | $2,867.61 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $3,433.22 | ↓ -49% |
| Summacare | Premier | $3,741.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Acop | $3,902.73 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $4,027.32 | ↓ -40% |
| Ohio Healthy | Transplant | $4,141.20 | ↓ -38% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $4,332.76 | ↓ -36% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $4,534.61 | ↓ -33% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $4,616.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | All Products | $4,658.85 | ↓ -31% |
| United | All Products | $4,669.86 | ↓ -31% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $4,669.86 | ↓ -31% |
| Optum | Commercial CRS Care Solutions | $4,855.56 | ↓ -28% |
| OMAS | All Products | $5,176.50 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO | $5,216.32 | ↓ -22% |
| MMO | Medicare PPO | $5,372.81 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $5,433.28 | ↓ -19% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $5,433.28 | ↓ -19% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $5,433.28 | ↓ -19% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $5,694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthsmart | All Products | $5,694.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $6,035.80 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC | All Products | $6,211.80 | ↓ -8% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $6,211.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Optum | Commercial CHD Care Solutions | $6,284.27 | ↓ -7% |
| Clarity Health | All Products | $6,729.45 | ↑ +0% |
| Three Rivers | All Products | $6,729.45 | ↑ +0% |
| Quality Care Partners | All Products | $7,247.10 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $7,247.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $7,764.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $7,764.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $8,282.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $8,282.40 | ↑ +23% |
| MMO | NASCO | $8,282.40 | ↑ +23% |
| USA Managed Care | All Products | $9,317.70 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $9,317.70 | ↑ +38% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $9,326.79 | ↑ +39% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $9,817.67 | ↑ +46% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $10,308.55 | ↑ +53% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $10,308.55 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $10,353.00 | ↑ +54% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $10,504.91 | ↑ +56% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $10,799.44 | ↑ +60% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,167.80 | ↑ +140% |
| CIGNA | Medicare Advantage Lifesource | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| Valor | ALL PRODUCTS | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| DEVOTED HEALTH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $16,588.34 | ↑ +147% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17,048.31 | ↑ +153% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $17,048.31 | ↑ +153% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $17,048.31 | ↑ +153% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $17,048.31 | ↑ +153% |
| OPTUM | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $17,048.31 | ↑ +153% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $17,085.99 | ↑ +154% |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $17,417.76 | ↑ +159% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage PPO | $17,559.76 | ↑ +161% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $17,915.41 | ↑ +166% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $18,247.18 | ↑ +171% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $18,412.18 | ↑ +174% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $48,652.21 | ↑ +623% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $54,351.12 | ↑ +708% |
| United BH | All Products PHD | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | All Products MD | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | All Products RN | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | All Products MA | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $12,963.06 – $15,009.86 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $7,642.13 – $18,247.18 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $7,275.57 – $18,247.18 |
| akron general | Akron | $6,729.45 | $1.10 – $17,915.41 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $6,729.45 | $1.10 – $17,085.99 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $7,939.95 – $18,247.18 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $8,134.69 – $18,247.18 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $7,961.90 – $18,247.18 |