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Cataract Surgery at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,102.10
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.
$3,234.00
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 $6,468.48 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 | $324.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $335.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $423.84 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | All Products | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $447.12 | ↓ -79% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $469.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $473.71 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $491.83 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $516.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $543.55 | ↓ -74% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $570.73 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $570.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $597.91 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $597.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $705.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $705.93 | ↓ -66% |
| Oscar | All Products | $821.76 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $912.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,017.23 | ↓ -52% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,047.84 | ↓ -50% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,102.99 | ↓ -48% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,158.14 | ↓ -45% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,158.14 | ↓ -45% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,158.14 | ↓ -45% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,169.17 | ↓ -44% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,213.29 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,258.03 | ↓ -40% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,279.98 | ↓ -39% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,309.30 | ↓ -38% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,438.69 | ↓ -32% |
| United | All Products | $1,550.62 | ↓ -26% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,597.60 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,617.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,792.94 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,792.94 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,792.94 | ↓ -15% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,885.42 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,940.40 | ↓ -8% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,107.35 | ↑ +0% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,107.35 | ↑ +0% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,107.35 | ↑ +0% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,107.35 | ↑ +0% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,181.11 | ↑ +4% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,183.38 | ↑ +4% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,183.38 | ↑ +4% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,183.38 | ↑ +4% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,183.38 | ↑ +4% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $2,183.38 | ↑ +4% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,248.88 | ↑ +7% |
| MMO | Traditional | $2,263.80 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $2,263.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,275.94 | ↑ +8% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $2,358.05 | ↑ +12% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,401.72 | ↑ +14% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $2,425.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $2,425.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $2,587.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,910.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $3,234.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | NASCO | $3,978.24 | ↑ +89% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $3,978.24 | ↑ +89% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $5,498.19 | ↑ +162% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $5,620.02 | ↑ +167% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $6,468.48 | ↑ +208% |
| 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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Cataract Surgery at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,102.10 | $1.10 – $2,910.60 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $2,102.10 | $1.10 – $2,910.60 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $1,834.75 – $2,124.45 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,123.79 – $2,401.72 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,151.35 – $2,401.72 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,081.64 – $2,401.72 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,029.75 – $2,401.72 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,126.90 – $2,401.72 |