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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$768.30
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.
$1,182.00
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.
$0.95 with AETNA vs $1,182.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AETNA | Acop | $0.95 | ↓ -100% |
| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $1.11 | ↓ -100% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $27.56 | ↓ -96% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $29.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $29.01 | ↓ -96% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $30.46 | ↓ -96% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $30.46 | ↓ -96% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $30.46 | ↓ -96% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $30.75 | ↓ -96% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $31.91 | ↓ -96% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $36.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $42.35 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $48.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $53.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| Valor | All Products | $56.47 | ↓ -93% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $59.29 | ↓ -92% |
| PPHP | All Products | $61.07 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products | $63.10 | ↓ -92% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $63.10 | ↓ -92% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $66.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $80.64 | ↓ -90% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $80.64 | ↓ -90% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $101.38 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $115.20 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Premier | $115.36 | ↓ -85% |
| Oscar | All Products | $133.15 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $143.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $143.58 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $143.58 | ↓ -81% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $158.33 | ↓ -79% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $158.33 | ↓ -79% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $158.33 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $158.33 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $161.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $161.18 | ↓ -79% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $161.18 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $161.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $161.18 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $163.87 | ↓ -79% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $166.02 | ↓ -78% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $170.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $171.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $174.08 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $177.30 | ↓ -77% |
| OHCP | All Products | $203.84 | ↓ -73% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $241.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $258.86 | ↓ -66% |
| OMAS | All Products | $262.00 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | NASCO | $282.96 | ↓ -63% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $282.96 | ↓ -63% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $305.49 | ↓ -60% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $314.40 | ↓ -59% |
| AETNA | International | $314.47 | ↓ -59% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $334.27 | ↓ -56% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $335.61 | ↓ -56% |
| GMS | All Products | $366.80 | ↓ -52% |
| MMO | Traditional | $366.80 | ↓ -52% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $378.24 | ↓ -51% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $378.24 | ↓ -51% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $393.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $393.00 | ↓ -49% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $414.89 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Asa | $419.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $424.34 | ↓ -45% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $471.60 | ↓ -39% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $477.52 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $524.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $531.90 | ↓ -31% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $574.45 | ↓ -25% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $591.00 | ↓ -23% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $615.82 | ↓ -20% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $638.28 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $653.65 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $669.01 | ↓ -13% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $709.20 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $709.20 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $815.58 | ↑ +6% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $827.40 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $827.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $886.50 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $886.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $945.60 | ↑ +23% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,063.80 | ↑ +38% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $1,063.80 | ↑ +38% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $1,063.80 | ↑ +38% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $1,063.80 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $1,182.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Consultation pathology during surgery frozen section first tissue block at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $768.30 | $1.10 – $1,063.80 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |
| lodi hospital | Lodi | $768.30 | $46.24 – $1,063.80 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $768.30 | $0.95 – $1,063.80 |