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Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$240.50
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.
$370.00
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 $3,728.00 with UNITED — 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 | $34.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $39.09 | ↓ -84% |
| Oscar | All Products | $43.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $45.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $49.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $50.65 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Valor | All Products | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $52.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $52.42 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $54.73 | ↓ -77% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $55.04 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $55.04 | ↓ -77% |
| PPHP | All Products | $57.33 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $57.66 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $57.66 | ↓ -76% |
| OHCP | All Products | $66.91 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $74.04 | ↓ -69% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $84.97 | ↓ -65% |
| OMAS | All Products | $86.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $100.28 | ↓ -58% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $103.20 | ↓ -57% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $106.32 | ↓ -56% |
| Summacare | Premier | $108.77 | ↓ -55% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $109.09 | ↓ -55% |
| MMO | Traditional | $120.40 | ↓ -50% |
| GMS | All Products | $120.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $129.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $129.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Asa | $137.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $154.80 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $172.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $188.03 | ↓ -22% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $188.03 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $224.11 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Acop | $229.84 | ↓ -4% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $239.69 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $264.81 | ↑ +10% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $439.85 | ↑ +83% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $483.32 | ↑ +101% |
| United | All Products | $520.92 | ↑ +117% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $608.77 | ↑ +153% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $706.64 | ↑ +194% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $743.83 | ↑ +209% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +225% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +225% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +225% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $788.46 | ↑ +228% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $818.21 | ↑ +240% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $842.40 | ↑ +250% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $842.40 | ↑ +250% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $842.40 | ↑ +250% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $842.40 | ↑ +250% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $871.89 | ↑ +263% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +266% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +266% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +266% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +266% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $879.81 | ↑ +266% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $906.21 | ↑ +277% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $909.79 | ↑ +278% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $950.20 | ↑ +295% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $967.79 | ↑ +302% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,560.83 | ↑ +549% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,560.83 | ↑ +549% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $2,215.54 | ↑ +821% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,264.64 | ↑ +842% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $2,606.53 | ↑ +984% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,728.00 | ↑ +1450% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Flexible Sigmoidoscopy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,726.10 | $0.01 – $3,774.60 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $2,726.10 | $107.06 – $3,774.60 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $2,726.10 | $107.06 – $3,774.60 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $2,726.10 | $91.45 – $3,774.60 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $2,726.10 | $107.06 – $3,774.60 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $2,726.10 | $91.45 – $3,774.60 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $2,726.10 | $107.06 – $3,774.60 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $2,726.10 | $72.65 – $3,774.60 |