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Intro windpipe wire/tube at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$741.00
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.
$1,140.00
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 $4,988.78 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $92.11 | ↓ -88% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $96.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $99.11 | ↓ -87% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $101.31 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $106.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $106.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $111.44 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $111.44 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $120.45 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $132.15 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $134.62 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $138.76 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $145.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $200.66 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $262.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $269.59 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Premier | $289.07 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $289.67 | ↓ -61% |
| OHCP | All Products | $443.46 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $509.64 | ↓ -31% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $509.64 | ↓ -31% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $563.16 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $570.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $664.62 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $684.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $798.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $798.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $855.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $855.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $912.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,026.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,140.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $1,281.26 | ↑ +73% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,370.32 | ↑ +85% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $1,513.94 | ↑ +104% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,593.38 | ↑ +115% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,593.38 | ↑ +115% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,593.38 | ↑ +115% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,593.38 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Acop | $1,598.52 | ↑ +116% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,649.14 | ↑ +123% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,683.92 | ↑ +127% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,683.92 | ↑ +127% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,683.92 | ↑ +127% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,683.92 | ↑ +127% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,683.92 | ↑ +127% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,720.85 | ↑ +132% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,734.44 | ↑ +134% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $1,818.63 | ↑ +145% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,852.31 | ↑ +150% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,456.42 | ↑ +232% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,699.17 | ↑ +264% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $2,897.66 | ↑ +291% |
| MMO | NASCO | $2,897.66 | ↑ +291% |
| United | All Products | $2,909.17 | ↑ +293% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $3,480.34 | ↑ +370% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $4,240.45 | ↑ +472% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,334.41 | ↑ +485% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $4,988.78 | ↑ +573% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Intro windpipe wire/tube at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $5,156.45 | $0.01 – $7,139.70 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $741.00 | $1.10 – $1,734.44 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,598.65 – $1,852.31 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,472.47 – $1,852.31 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,472.47 – $1,852.31 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,598.65 – $1,852.31 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,472.47 – $1,852.31 |
| lodi hospital | Lodi | not published | $1,724.47 – $1,818.45 |