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Appendix Removal (Laparoscopic) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,457.00
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.
$3,780.00
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 $16,944.69 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 | $286.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $352.33 | ↓ -86% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $370.87 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $373.93 | ↓ -85% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $389.41 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $389.41 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $407.96 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $407.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $423.74 | ↓ -83% |
| OHCP | All Products | $439.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $488.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $546.52 | ↓ -78% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $557.73 | ↓ -77% |
| OMAS | All Products | $564.50 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Valor | All Products | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $564.99 | ↓ -77% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $593.24 | ↓ -76% |
| PPHP | All Products | $621.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $658.21 | ↓ -73% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $677.40 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Traditional | $790.30 | ↓ -68% |
| GMS | All Products | $790.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $813.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $813.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $846.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $846.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Asa | $903.20 | ↓ -63% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,016.10 | ↓ -59% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,023.64 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,129.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,152.58 | ↓ -53% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,173.57 | ↓ -52% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,501.47 | ↓ -39% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,649.85 | ↓ -33% |
| United | All Products | $1,778.21 | ↓ -28% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,066.37 | ↓ -16% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,066.37 | ↓ -16% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,066.37 | ↓ -16% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,751.32 | ↑ +12% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,896.13 | ↑ +18% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +24% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +24% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $3,040.94 | ↑ +24% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $3,069.90 | ↑ +25% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $3,185.74 | ↑ +30% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,390.83 | ↑ +119% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $5,390.83 | ↑ +119% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $5,390.83 | ↑ +119% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,390.83 | ↑ +119% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,579.51 | ↑ +127% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,719.53 | ↑ +133% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,719.53 | ↑ +133% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,719.53 | ↑ +133% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,719.53 | ↑ +133% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $5,719.53 | ↑ +133% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,822.10 | ↑ +137% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,891.12 | ↑ +140% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $6,177.10 | ↑ +151% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,291.49 | ↑ +156% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,608.00 | ↑ +291% |
| MMO | NASCO | $9,852.42 | ↑ +301% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $9,852.42 | ↑ +301% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $14,402.93 | ↑ +486% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $14,722.08 | ↑ +499% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $16,944.69 | ↑ +590% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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Appendix Removal (Laparoscopic) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,457.00 | $1.10 – $5,719.53 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $17,444.70 | $1,130.46 – $24,154.20 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $17,444.70 | $1,130.46 – $24,154.20 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $17,444.70 | $965.62 – $24,154.20 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $17,444.70 | $1,130.46 – $24,154.20 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $17,444.70 | $965.62 – $24,154.20 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $17,444.70 | $1,130.46 – $24,154.20 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $17,444.70 | $767.11 – $24,154.20 |