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Bronchial challenge at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,086.80
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.
$1,672.00
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 $1,432.00 with AETNA — 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 | $16.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $21.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $21.83 | ↓ -98% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $24.40 | ↓ -98% |
| PPHP | All Products | $27.73 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Valor | All Products | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $28.18 | ↓ -97% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $29.59 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $36.63 | ↓ -97% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $36.63 | ↓ -97% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $49.13 | ↓ -95% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $50.31 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Premier | $52.39 | ↓ -95% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $52.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $55.61 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $55.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $57.49 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $58.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $58.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Oscar | All Products | $60.98 | ↓ -94% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $68.75 | ↓ -94% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $70.01 | ↓ -94% |
| United | All Products | $72.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $93.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $93.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $93.00 | ↓ -91% |
| OHCP | All Products | $93.36 | ↓ -91% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $101.57 | ↓ -91% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $106.92 | ↓ -90% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $108.71 | ↓ -90% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $112.27 | ↓ -90% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $112.27 | ↓ -90% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $112.27 | ↓ -90% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $113.34 | ↓ -90% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $117.61 | ↓ -89% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $118.56 | ↓ -89% |
| OMAS | All Products | $120.00 | ↓ -89% |
| MMO | NASCO | $129.60 | ↓ -88% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $129.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $139.92 | ↓ -87% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $144.00 | ↓ -87% |
| GMS | All Products | $168.00 | ↓ -85% |
| MMO | Traditional | $168.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $180.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $180.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Asa | $192.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $216.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $240.00 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $287.73 | ↓ -74% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $287.73 | ↓ -74% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $287.73 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $287.73 | ↓ -74% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $297.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $310.75 | ↓ -71% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $353.04 | ↓ -68% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $353.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $353.04 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $353.04 | ↓ -68% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $353.04 | ↓ -68% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $363.63 | ↓ -67% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $381.28 | ↓ -65% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $388.34 | ↓ -64% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $404.97 | ↓ -63% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $458.24 | ↓ -58% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $458.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $514.09 | ↓ -53% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $579.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $644.40 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $695.95 | ↓ -36% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $716.00 | ↓ -34% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $746.07 | ↓ -31% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $773.28 | ↓ -29% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $791.90 | ↓ -27% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $810.51 | ↓ -25% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $859.20 | ↓ -21% |
| AETNA | Acop | $859.20 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $859.20 | ↓ -21% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $908.71 | ↓ -16% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $988.08 | ↓ -9% |
| AETNA | International | $1,002.40 | ↓ -8% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $1,002.40 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,002.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $1,002.40 | ↓ -8% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,045.90 | ↓ -4% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,074.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,074.00 | ↓ -1% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,118.39 | ↑ +3% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $1,145.60 | ↑ +5% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,288.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,288.80 | ↑ +19% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,288.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,288.80 | ↑ +19% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $1,432.00 | ↑ +32% |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
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Bronchial challenge at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,086.80 | $1.10 – $1,288.80 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $930.80 | $108.94 – $1,288.80 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $930.80 | $111.61 – $1,288.80 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $930.80 | $104.85 – $1,288.80 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $930.80 | $99.83 – $1,288.80 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $930.80 | $109.24 – $1,288.80 |
| lodi hospital | Lodi | $930.80 | $170.43 – $1,288.80 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $930.80 | $98.56 – $1,288.80 |