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Esophagoscopy flex dx brush at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$395.20
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.
$608.00
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 $2,542.14 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 | $50.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $50.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $61.73 | ↓ -84% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $64.98 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $65.86 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Valor | All Products | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $67.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $68.23 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $68.23 | ↓ -83% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $71.21 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $71.48 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $71.48 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $73.61 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $74.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $109.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $138.35 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $140.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Oscar | All Products | $154.49 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $158.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $234.09 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $236.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $250.35 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Acop | $254.55 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $276.60 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $279.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $279.20 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $300.35 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $304.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $354.46 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $364.80 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $425.60 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $425.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $456.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $456.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $456.30 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $486.40 | ↑ +23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $501.39 | ↑ +27% |
| United | All Products | $540.40 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $547.20 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $608.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $619.37 | ↑ +57% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $635.86 | ↑ +61% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $651.97 | ↑ +65% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +73% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +73% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $684.57 | ↑ +73% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $691.09 | ↑ +75% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $717.17 | ↑ +81% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $858.08 | ↑ +117% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $858.08 | ↑ +117% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $858.08 | ↑ +117% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $858.08 | ↑ +117% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $858.08 | ↑ +117% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $866.29 | ↑ +119% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $866.29 | ↑ +119% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $866.29 | ↑ +119% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $866.29 | ↑ +119% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $883.82 | ↑ +124% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $896.61 | ↑ +127% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $926.72 | ↑ +134% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $935.59 | ↑ +137% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $943.89 | ↑ +139% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,548.29 | ↑ +292% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,548.29 | ↑ +292% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $2,160.81 | ↑ +447% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,208.69 | ↑ +459% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $2,542.14 | ↑ +543% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Esophagoscopy flex dx brush at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,803.45 | $1.10 – $3,881.70 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $2,803.45 | $144.87 – $3,881.70 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $2,803.45 | $144.87 – $3,881.70 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $2,803.45 | $123.74 – $3,881.70 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $2,803.45 | $144.87 – $3,881.70 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $2,803.45 | $123.74 – $3,881.70 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $2,803.45 | $144.87 – $3,881.70 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $2,803.45 | $98.30 – $3,881.70 |