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Kidney endoscopy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,453.40
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.
$2,236.00
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 $15,028.30 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 | $160.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $169.37 | ↓ -88% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $177.84 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $177.84 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $179.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $186.31 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $186.31 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $192.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $234.34 | ↓ -84% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $256.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $261.91 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $269.09 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $281.91 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $388.92 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $446.20 | ↓ -69% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $477.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Acop | $508.77 | ↓ -65% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $522.81 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $527.23 | ↓ -64% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $528.45 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Premier | $562.41 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $568.17 | ↓ -61% |
| OHCP | All Products | $869.80 | ↓ -40% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $884.42 | ↓ -39% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $971.82 | ↓ -33% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $987.76 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $987.76 | ↓ -32% |
| United | All Products | $1,047.43 | ↓ -28% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,104.58 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,118.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,212.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,303.59 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,341.60 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,565.20 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,565.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,677.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,677.00 | ↑ +15% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,680.64 | ↑ +16% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,769.09 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,788.80 | ↑ +23% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +28% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +28% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +28% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,875.24 | ↑ +29% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,946.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,012.40 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $2,236.00 | ↑ +54% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $4,697.16 | ↑ +223% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $4,697.16 | ↑ +223% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $4,697.16 | ↑ +223% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $4,697.16 | ↑ +223% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $4,861.56 | ↑ +234% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,072.67 | ↑ +249% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,072.67 | ↑ +249% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $5,072.67 | ↑ +249% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,072.67 | ↑ +249% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,072.67 | ↑ +249% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,072.94 | ↑ +249% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $5,224.85 | ↑ +259% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $5,478.49 | ↑ +277% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $5,579.94 | ↑ +284% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $8,834.56 | ↑ +508% |
| MMO | NASCO | $8,834.56 | ↑ +508% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $12,774.00 | ↑ +779% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $13,057.06 | ↑ +798% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $15,028.30 | ↑ +934% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Kidney endoscopy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,453.40 | $1.10 – $5,072.67 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,453.40 | $1.10 – $5,224.85 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,802.45 – $5,579.94 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,942.76 – $3,407.40 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,846.66 – $5,579.94 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,734.84 – $5,579.94 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,651.63 – $5,579.94 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,807.44 – $5,579.94 |