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Esophagoscop stent placement at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$884.00
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.
$1,360.00
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 $17,015.80 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 | $115.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $125.26 | ↓ -86% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $142.33 | ↓ -84% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $149.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $151.28 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $157.31 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $157.31 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $164.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $164.80 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $167.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $169.08 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $175.36 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $183.71 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $252.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $252.43 | ↓ -71% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $340.16 | ↓ -62% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $340.70 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $345.58 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $363.08 | ↓ -59% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $462.88 | ↓ -48% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $508.62 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $529.04 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products | $548.19 | ↓ -38% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $641.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $641.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $641.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $671.84 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $680.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $792.88 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $816.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $952.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $952.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,020.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,020.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,088.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,224.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,360.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,504.73 | ↑ +183% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,636.56 | ↑ +198% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,768.39 | ↑ +213% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,768.39 | ↑ +213% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,768.39 | ↑ +213% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,794.75 | ↑ +216% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,900.22 | ↑ +228% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,500.28 | ↑ +522% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $5,500.28 | ↑ +522% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $5,500.28 | ↑ +522% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $5,500.28 | ↑ +522% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,692.79 | ↑ +544% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,743.54 | ↑ +550% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $5,743.54 | ↑ +550% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,743.54 | ↑ +550% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,743.54 | ↑ +550% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,743.54 | ↑ +550% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,915.84 | ↑ +569% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,940.30 | ↑ +572% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $6,203.02 | ↑ +602% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,317.89 | ↑ +615% |
| MMO | NASCO | $9,730.56 | ↑ +1001% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $9,730.56 | ↑ +1001% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $14,463.38 | ↑ +1536% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $14,783.86 | ↑ +1572% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $17,015.80 | ↑ +1825% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Esophagoscop stent placement at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $17,798.95 | $1.10 – $24,644.70 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $884.00 | $1.10 – $5,915.84 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $6,977.25 | $900.00 – $10,338.37 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $6,977.25 | $900.00 – $14,546.76 |
| University Hospitals Conneaut Medical Center | Conneaut | $5,814.75 | not published |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $6,977.25 | $5,743.54 – $10,338.37 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $6,977.25 | $5,743.54 – $10,338.37 |
| University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center | Geneva | $5,814.75 | not published |