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Ex palate/uvula lesion without closure 42104 at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$439.40
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.
$676.00
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 $9,292.73 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.
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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 | $82.26 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $88.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $90.22 | ↓ -79% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $94.97 | ↓ -78% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $99.72 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $99.72 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $104.47 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $104.47 | ↓ -76% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $107.57 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Valor | All Products | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $118.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $120.22 | ↓ -73% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $123.90 | ↓ -72% |
| PPHP | All Products | $129.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Oscar | All Products | $171.77 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $178.25 | ↓ -59% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $238.84 | ↓ -46% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $240.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Summacare | Premier | $258.16 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $262.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $265.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $284.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Acop | $295.09 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $313.98 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $333.94 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $338.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $394.11 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $405.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $452.70 | ↑ +3% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $452.70 | ↑ +3% |
| GMS | All Products | $473.20 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $473.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $507.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $507.00 | ↑ +15% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $522.42 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Asa | $540.80 | ↑ +23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $574.05 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $608.40 | ↑ +38% |
| United | All Products | $618.71 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $676.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $721.80 | ↑ +64% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,237.01 | ↑ +182% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,302.12 | ↑ +196% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,367.23 | ↑ +211% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,367.23 | ↑ +211% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,367.23 | ↑ +211% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,380.25 | ↑ +214% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,432.33 | ↑ +226% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,996.53 | ↑ +582% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,996.53 | ↑ +582% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,996.53 | ↑ +582% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,996.53 | ↑ +582% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,101.41 | ↑ +606% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +614% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +614% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +614% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,136.68 | ↑ +614% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +614% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,230.78 | ↑ +635% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,236.25 | ↑ +637% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,387.61 | ↑ +671% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,450.35 | ↑ +685% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,497.86 | ↑ +1151% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,497.86 | ↑ +1151% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,898.79 | ↑ +1698% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,073.81 | ↑ +1737% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,292.73 | ↑ +2015% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Ex palate/uvula lesion without closure 42104 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $9,696.70 | $0.01 – $13,426.20 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $439.40 | $1.10 – $3,230.78 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,629.25 | $900.00 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,629.25 | $900.00 – $7,944.33 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $3,629.25 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $3,629.25 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $3,629.25 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $3,629.25 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |