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Incision of eardrum at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$358.80
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.
$552.00
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 $663.85 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 | $58.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $61.43 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $64.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $64.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $67.57 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $67.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $73.39 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $79.52 | ↓ -78% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $85.44 | ↓ -76% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $89.94 | ↓ -75% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $94.44 | ↓ -74% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $94.44 | ↓ -74% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $94.44 | ↓ -74% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $95.34 | ↓ -73% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $95.97 | ↓ -73% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $98.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Valor | All Products | $106.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $107.26 | ↓ -70% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $111.32 | ↓ -69% |
| PPHP | All Products | $116.62 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | All Products | $140.26 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $159.11 | ↓ -56% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $207.51 | ↓ -42% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $214.57 | ↓ -40% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $214.57 | ↓ -40% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $214.57 | ↓ -40% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $214.57 | ↓ -40% |
| OHCP | All Products | $214.73 | ↓ -40% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $216.28 | ↓ -40% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $222.08 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $224.08 | ↓ -38% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $224.08 | ↓ -38% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $224.08 | ↓ -38% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $224.08 | ↓ -38% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $224.08 | ↓ -38% |
| Summacare | Premier | $230.34 | ↓ -36% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $230.80 | ↓ -36% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $231.73 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $233.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $242.00 | ↓ -33% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $246.49 | ↓ -31% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $249.93 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Acop | $254.66 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $272.69 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $276.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $276.13 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $321.82 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $331.20 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $386.40 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $386.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $404.13 | ↑ +13% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $404.13 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $414.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $414.00 | ↑ +15% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $417.54 | ↑ +16% |
| MMO | NASCO | $417.54 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Asa | $441.60 | ↑ +23% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $458.69 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $496.80 | ↑ +38% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $504.02 | ↑ +40% |
| United | All Products | $543.24 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $552.00 | ↑ +54% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $564.27 | ↑ +57% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $576.78 | ↑ +61% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $634.79 | ↑ +77% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $663.85 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Incision of eardrum at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $603.85 | $0.01 – $836.10 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $358.80 | $1.10 – $496.80 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $1,526.40 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $1,526.40 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $403.34 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $403.34 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $403.34 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $1,272.00 | $224.08 – $403.34 |