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Cystoscopy and biopsy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$785.20
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.
$1,208.00
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 $9,879.99 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 | $101.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $109.22 | ↓ -86% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $114.79 | ↓ -85% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $120.83 | ↓ -85% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $126.87 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $126.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $132.91 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $132.91 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $132.93 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $145.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $148.57 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $152.91 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $160.19 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $218.75 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $296.45 | ↓ -62% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $297.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $306.95 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $319.04 | ↓ -59% |
| OHCP | All Products | $469.91 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $547.32 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $555.56 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $555.56 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $585.36 | ↓ -25% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $596.75 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $604.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Acop | $623.95 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $646.71 | ↓ -18% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $704.26 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $724.80 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $797.19 | ↑ +2% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $839.15 | ↑ +7% |
| GMS | All Products | $845.60 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $845.60 | ↑ +8% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $881.11 | ↑ +12% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $881.11 | ↑ +12% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $881.11 | ↑ +12% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $889.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $906.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $906.00 | ↑ +15% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $923.07 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Asa | $966.40 | ↑ +23% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,068.48 | ↑ +36% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,087.20 | ↑ +38% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,174.07 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,208.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | All Products | $1,265.41 | ↑ +61% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,486.70 | ↑ +89% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,186.78 | ↑ +306% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,186.78 | ↑ +306% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,186.78 | ↑ +306% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,186.78 | ↑ +306% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,298.32 | ↑ +320% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,334.90 | ↑ +325% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,334.90 | ↑ +325% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,334.90 | ↑ +325% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,334.90 | ↑ +325% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,334.90 | ↑ +325% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,434.95 | ↑ +337% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,441.72 | ↑ +338% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,601.70 | ↑ +359% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,668.39 | ↑ +367% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,953.02 | ↑ +658% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,953.02 | ↑ +658% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $8,397.95 | ↑ +970% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,584.04 | ↑ +993% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,879.99 | ↑ +1158% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy and biopsy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $785.20 | $1.10 – $3,334.90 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $785.20 | $1.10 – $3,434.95 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $854.97 – $3,668.39 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $1,395.87 – $1,616.27 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $875.95 – $3,668.39 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $822.91 – $3,668.39 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $783.44 – $3,668.39 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $857.34 – $3,668.39 |