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Appendectomy/open/rup/w/absc/peri 44960 at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,770.00
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.
$5,800.00
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 $3,185.74 with AMERIHEALTH — 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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| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Oscar | All Products | $365.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $456.57 | ↓ -88% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $480.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $504.63 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $504.63 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $528.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $528.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $543.95 | ↓ -86% |
| OHCP | All Products | $559.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $607.51 | ↓ -84% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $710.37 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $711.31 | ↓ -81% |
| OMAS | All Products | $719.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $795.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | All Products | $810.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $838.35 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $850.51 | ↓ -77% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $862.80 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $891.01 | ↓ -76% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,006.60 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,006.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,078.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,078.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,150.40 | ↓ -69% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,185.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,185.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,294.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,438.00 | ↓ -62% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,503.56 | ↓ -60% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,510.66 | ↓ -60% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,510.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,652.42 | ↓ -56% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,707.15 | ↓ -55% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,184.74 | ↓ -42% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,400.64 | ↓ -36% |
| United | All Products | $2,587.42 | ↓ -31% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,751.32 | ↓ -27% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,896.13 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $3,011.67 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $3,011.67 | ↓ -20% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $3,011.67 | ↓ -20% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↓ -19% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↓ -19% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↓ -19% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $3,069.90 | ↓ -19% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $3,185.74 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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Appendectomy/open/rup/w/absc/peri 44960 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,770.00 | $1.10 – $5,220.00 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,770.00 | $1.10 – $3,108.81 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,950.74 – $3,006.95 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,817.50 – $5,578.16 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $3,023.11 – $3,500.44 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,840.06 – $3,288.49 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,703.83 – $3,130.75 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,958.90 – $3,426.09 |