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MRI brain without dye at hillcrest hospital
6780 Mayfield Road, Mayfield Heights, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1902858152
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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.
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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.
$218.09 with OPTUM vs $2,444.63 with UNITED — 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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| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $218.09 | — |
| Paramount | Managed Medicaid | $236.46 | — |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $241.05 | — |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $241.05 | — |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $241.05 | — |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $245.64 | — |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $245.64 | — |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $252.53 | — |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $478.61 | — |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO | $508.30 | — |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $508.30 | — |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $508.30 | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $508.30 | — |
| OPTUM | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $508.30 | — |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | — |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $516.95 | — |
| DEVOTED HEALTH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | — |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | — |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | — |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $516.95 | — |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage PPO | $523.54 | — |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $532.46 | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $542.80 | — |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $548.96 | — |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $558.31 | — |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $568.65 | — |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $1,267.41 | — |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,421.61 | — |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,491.09 | — |
| AETNA | International | $2,050.51 | — |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,444.63 | — |
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MRI brain without dye at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,288.35 | $1.10 – $3,404.70 |
| akron general | Akron | $2,458.95 | $0.87 – $3,404.70 |
| University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center | Ashland | $1,714.50 | $529.91 – $953.84 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $217.49 – $568.65 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $355.08 – $411.15 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $222.82 – $568.65 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $209.33 – $568.65 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $199.29 – $568.65 |