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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$520.00
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.
$800.00
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 $5,378.41 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 | $72.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $77.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $94.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $102.94 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Valor | All Products | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $103.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $105.34 | ↓ -80% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $108.36 | ↓ -79% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $108.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $113.78 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $113.78 | ↓ -78% |
| PPHP | All Products | $114.05 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $119.20 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $119.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $155.89 | ↓ -70% |
| Oscar | All Products | $203.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $211.51 | ↓ -59% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $224.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Premier | $226.20 | ↓ -57% |
| OHCP | All Products | $311.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $395.20 | ↓ -24% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $395.93 | ↓ -24% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $395.93 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $400.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $466.40 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $480.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $560.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $560.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $600.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $600.00 | ↑ +15% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $619.37 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Asa | $640.00 | ↑ +23% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $651.97 | ↑ +25% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +32% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +32% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +32% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $691.09 | ↑ +33% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $717.17 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $720.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $800.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $1,081.76 | ↑ +108% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,156.95 | ↑ +122% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $1,278.21 | ↑ +146% |
| Aetna | Acop | $1,378.20 | ↑ +165% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,752.78 | ↑ +237% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,752.78 | ↑ +237% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,752.78 | ↑ +237% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,752.78 | ↑ +237% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,814.13 | ↑ +249% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,815.43 | ↑ +249% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,815.43 | ↑ +249% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,815.43 | ↑ +249% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,815.43 | ↑ +249% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,815.43 | ↑ +249% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,869.90 | ↑ +260% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,893.00 | ↑ +264% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $1,960.67 | ↑ +277% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,996.98 | ↑ +284% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,081.79 | ↑ +300% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,287.52 | ↑ +340% |
| United | All Products | $2,465.50 | ↑ +374% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,938.43 | ↑ +465% |
| MMO | NASCO | $3,248.90 | ↑ +525% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $3,248.90 | ↑ +525% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $4,571.63 | ↑ +779% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,672.93 | ↑ +799% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $5,378.41 | ↑ +934% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $5,671.90 | $1.10 – $7,853.40 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $5,671.90 | $217.94 – $7,853.40 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $5,671.90 | $217.94 – $7,853.40 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $5,671.90 | $186.16 – $7,853.40 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $5,671.90 | $217.94 – $7,853.40 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $5,671.90 | $186.16 – $7,853.40 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $5,671.90 | $217.94 – $7,853.40 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $5,671.90 | $147.89 – $7,853.40 |