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Excision of tongue lesion at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$735.80
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.
$1,132.00
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.
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% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $140.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $147.53 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $147.55 | ↓ -80% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $154.91 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $154.91 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $162.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $162.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $162.34 | ↓ -78% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $192.95 | ↓ -74% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $215.65 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Valor | All Products | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $216.45 | ↓ -71% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $227.27 | ↓ -69% |
| PPHP | All Products | $238.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Oscar | All Products | $287.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $320.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $415.17 | ↓ -44% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $431.65 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $440.35 | ↓ -40% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $441.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $444.03 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Acop | $460.28 | ↓ -37% |
| Summacare | Premier | $463.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $490.56 | ↓ -33% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $559.21 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $566.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $659.96 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $679.20 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $745.85 | ↑ +1% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $785.10 | ↑ +7% |
| GMS | All Products | $792.40 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $792.40 | ↑ +8% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $814.62 | ↑ +11% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $814.86 | ↑ +11% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $814.86 | ↑ +11% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↑ +12% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↑ +12% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↑ +12% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $832.21 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $849.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $849.00 | ↑ +15% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $863.61 | ↑ +17% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $895.13 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Asa | $905.60 | ↑ +23% |
| United | All Products | $964.77 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,018.80 | ↑ +38% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,127.74 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,132.00 | ↑ +54% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,996.53 | ↑ +307% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,996.53 | ↑ +307% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,996.53 | ↑ +307% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,996.53 | ↑ +307% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,101.41 | ↑ +322% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +326% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +326% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +326% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,136.68 | ↑ +326% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,136.68 | ↑ +326% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,230.78 | ↑ +339% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,236.25 | ↑ +340% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,387.61 | ↑ +360% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,450.35 | ↑ +369% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,497.86 | ↑ +647% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,497.86 | ↑ +647% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $7,898.79 | ↑ +973% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,073.81 | ↑ +997% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,292.73 | ↑ +1163% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Excision of tongue lesion 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 | $735.80 | $1.10 – $3,230.78 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,732.00 | $900.00 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,732.00 | $900.00 – $7,944.33 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $3,732.00 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $3,732.00 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $3,732.00 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $3,732.00 | $3,136.68 – $5,646.02 |