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Appendectomy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,756.00
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.
$4,240.00
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 $18,145.13 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% |
| Oscar | All Products | $275.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $352.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $370.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $389.41 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $389.41 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $398.40 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $407.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $407.96 | ↓ -85% |
| OHCP | All Products | $422.45 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $445.61 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $520.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $536.48 | ↓ -81% |
| OMAS | All Products | $543.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $582.27 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Valor | All Products | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $594.15 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $623.86 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $633.14 | ↓ -77% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $651.60 | ↓ -76% |
| PPHP | All Products | $653.57 | ↓ -76% |
| GMS | All Products | $760.20 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Traditional | $760.20 | ↓ -72% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $814.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $814.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $868.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $868.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Asa | $868.80 | ↓ -68% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $977.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,086.00 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,105.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,212.07 | ↓ -56% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,250.36 | ↓ -55% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,601.09 | ↓ -42% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,759.32 | ↓ -36% |
| United | All Products | $1,896.20 | ↓ -31% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,205.62 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,205.62 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,205.62 | ↓ -20% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,751.32 | ↓ -0% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,896.13 | ↑ +5% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +10% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +10% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $3,069.90 | ↑ +11% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $3,185.74 | ↑ +16% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $5,765.40 | ↑ +109% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,765.40 | ↑ +109% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,765.40 | ↑ +109% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $5,765.40 | ↑ +109% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,967.19 | ↑ +117% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,124.73 | ↑ +122% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $6,124.73 | ↑ +122% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,124.73 | ↑ +122% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,124.73 | ↑ +122% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,124.73 | ↑ +122% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,226.64 | ↑ +126% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $6,308.48 | ↑ +129% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $6,614.71 | ↑ +140% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,737.21 | ↑ +144% |
| MMO | NASCO | $12,916.74 | ↑ +369% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $12,916.74 | ↑ +369% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $15,423.30 | ↑ +460% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $15,765.06 | ↑ +472% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $18,145.13 | ↑ +558% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Appendectomy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,756.00 | $1.10 – $6,124.73 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $2,756.00 | $1.10 – $6,308.48 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,950.74 – $6,737.21 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,817.50 – $5,578.16 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,023.11 – $6,737.21 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,840.06 – $6,737.21 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,703.83 – $6,737.21 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,958.90 – $6,737.21 |