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Biopsy of urethra at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$673.40
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.
$1,036.00
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 $5,859.03 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $87.34 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $92.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $94.49 | ↓ -86% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $97.73 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $102.62 | ↓ -85% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $102.62 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $107.50 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $107.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $114.21 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $125.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $127.65 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $132.28 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $138.58 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $188.20 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $197.19 | ↓ -71% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $210.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Acop | $222.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $233.00 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $251.65 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $257.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $263.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $274.11 | ↓ -59% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $392.83 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $403.00 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $431.65 | ↓ -36% |
| United | All Products | $465.23 | ↓ -31% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $478.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $478.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $511.78 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $518.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $535.66 | ↓ -20% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $603.99 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $621.60 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $725.20 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $725.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $777.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $777.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $828.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $932.40 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,036.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,676.36 | ↑ +149% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,764.59 | ↑ +162% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,852.82 | ↑ +175% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,852.82 | ↑ +175% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,852.82 | ↑ +175% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,870.47 | ↑ +178% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,892.78 | ↑ +181% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,892.78 | ↑ +181% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,892.78 | ↑ +181% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,892.78 | ↑ +181% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,941.05 | ↑ +188% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,959.03 | ↑ +191% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,977.66 | ↑ +194% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,977.66 | ↑ +194% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,977.66 | ↑ +194% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,977.66 | ↑ +194% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,977.66 | ↑ +194% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,036.99 | ↑ +202% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,044.20 | ↑ +204% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $2,135.88 | ↑ +217% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,175.43 | ↑ +223% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $3,478.27 | ↑ +417% |
| MMO | NASCO | $3,478.27 | ↑ +417% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $4,980.15 | ↑ +640% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $5,090.51 | ↑ +656% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $5,859.03 | ↑ +770% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Biopsy of urethra at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $6,124.95 | $0.01 – $8,480.70 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $673.40 | $1.10 – $2,036.99 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,797.86 – $2,175.43 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,935.26 – $3,398.73 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,767.05 – $2,175.43 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,730.43 – $2,175.43 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,647.42 – $2,175.43 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,767.05 – $2,175.43 |