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Insert tissue expander(s) at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,987.40
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.
$4,596.00
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 $9,932.52 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 | $521.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $548.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $576.07 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $576.07 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $603.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $603.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $619.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $681.82 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $809.73 | ↓ -73% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $904.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| Valor | All Products | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $909.09 | ↓ -70% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $954.54 | ↓ -68% |
| PPHP | All Products | $1,000.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,167.84 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,337.19 | ↓ -55% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,337.19 | ↓ -55% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,360.39 | ↓ -54% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,431.99 | ↓ -52% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,503.59 | ↓ -50% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,503.59 | ↓ -50% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,503.59 | ↓ -50% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,517.91 | ↓ -49% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,538.49 | ↓ -49% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,575.19 | ↓ -47% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,787.84 | ↓ -40% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,854.54 | ↓ -38% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,943.34 | ↓ -35% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,270.42 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,298.00 | ↓ -23% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,473.19 | ↓ -17% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,679.47 | ↓ -10% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,717.60 | ↓ -9% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,757.60 | ↓ -8% |
| United | All Products | $2,929.04 | ↓ -2% |
| GMS | All Products | $3,217.20 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $3,217.20 | ↑ +8% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,352.64 | ↑ +12% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,352.64 | ↑ +12% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,352.64 | ↑ +12% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,352.64 | ↑ +12% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,352.64 | ↑ +12% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,382.66 | ↑ +13% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,382.66 | ↑ +13% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,382.66 | ↑ +13% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,382.66 | ↑ +13% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $3,396.21 | ↑ +14% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $3,396.21 | ↑ +14% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $3,396.21 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $3,447.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $3,447.00 | ↑ +15% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,453.22 | ↑ +16% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,501.06 | ↑ +17% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,620.85 | ↑ +21% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,653.28 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Asa | $3,676.80 | ↑ +23% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,687.90 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $4,136.40 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $4,596.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | NASCO | $6,125.06 | ↑ +105% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $6,125.06 | ↑ +105% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $8,442.61 | ↑ +183% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,629.69 | ↑ +189% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $9,932.52 | ↑ +232% |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Insert tissue expander(s) at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,987.40 | $1.10 – $4,136.40 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $2,987.40 | $1.10 – $4,136.40 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,459.00 – $3,687.90 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,382.01 – $2,758.12 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,494.78 – $3,687.90 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,404.27 – $3,687.90 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,336.91 – $3,687.90 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,463.03 – $3,687.90 |