Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at Grant Medical Center
111 South Grant Avenue, Columbus, OH · OhioHealth · · NPI 1255377149
$6.50
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.
$10.00
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.
$4.95 with Aetna vs $18.56 with Unitedhealthcare — 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 |
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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4.95 | ↓ -24% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $18.56 | ↑ +186% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Options Other Commercial Plan | $18.56 | ↑ +186% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Doctors Hospital | Columbus | $6.50 | $4.95 – $18.56 |
| Riverside Methodist Hospital | Columbus | $6.50 | $4.95 – $18.56 |
| Trinity Medical Center East | Steubenville | $52.57 | $2.44 – $71.02 |
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $22.10 | $1.10 – $30.60 |
| akron general | Akron | $22.10 | $0.95 – $30.60 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $22.10 | $0.95 – $30.60 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $22.10 | $0.95 – $30.60 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $22.10 | $0.95 – $30.60 |