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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$985.40
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.
$1,516.00
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 $10,974.37 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 | $116.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $125.10 | ↓ -87% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $131.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $138.26 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $138.26 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $144.85 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $144.85 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $157.41 | ↓ -84% |
| OHCP | All Products | $178.94 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $179.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $205.84 | ↓ -79% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $227.24 | ↓ -77% |
| OMAS | All Products | $230.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $230.06 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Valor | All Products | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $238.93 | ↓ -76% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $250.88 | ↓ -75% |
| PPHP | All Products | $261.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $268.18 | ↓ -73% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $276.00 | ↓ -72% |
| GMS | All Products | $322.00 | ↓ -67% |
| MMO | Traditional | $322.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $343.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $345.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $345.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Asa | $368.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $414.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $418.79 | ↓ -58% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $433.56 | ↓ -56% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $447.89 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $460.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Acop | $462.97 | ↓ -53% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $487.42 | ↓ -51% |
| Summacare | Premier | $494.03 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $494.84 | ↓ -50% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $822.83 | ↓ -16% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $871.67 | ↓ -12% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $871.67 | ↓ -12% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $904.15 | ↓ -8% |
| United | All Products | $974.49 | ↓ -1% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,137.55 | ↑ +15% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,795.98 | ↑ +82% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,890.51 | ↑ +92% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,985.04 | ↑ +101% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,985.04 | ↑ +101% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,985.04 | ↑ +101% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,003.94 | ↑ +103% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,079.56 | ↑ +111% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,538.18 | ↑ +259% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,538.18 | ↑ +259% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,538.18 | ↑ +259% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,538.18 | ↑ +259% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,662.01 | ↑ +272% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,704.30 | ↑ +276% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,704.30 | ↑ +276% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,704.30 | ↑ +276% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,704.30 | ↑ +276% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,704.30 | ↑ +276% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,815.43 | ↑ +287% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,821.23 | ↑ +288% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $4,000.65 | ↑ +306% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,074.73 | ↑ +314% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $6,508.54 | ↑ +560% |
| MMO | NASCO | $6,508.54 | ↑ +560% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $9,328.17 | ↑ +847% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,534.87 | ↑ +868% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $10,974.37 | ↑ +1014% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Bx/exc lymph node/open/superfic 38500 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $9,956.05 | $0.01 – $13,785.30 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $985.40 | $1.10 – $3,815.43 |
| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center | Cleveland OH 44106|3999 Richmond Road | $4,419.75 | $3,704.30 – $6,667.74 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,926.16 – $4,074.73 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $3,144.72 – $3,641.25 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,973.40 – $4,074.73 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,853.91 – $4,074.73 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,764.99 – $4,074.73 |