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Kidney endoscopy & biopsy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,695.20
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.
$2,608.00
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 $26,533.05 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 | $208.28 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $222.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $239.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $252.41 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $265.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $265.03 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $272.37 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $277.65 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $277.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Valor | All Products | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $296.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $304.41 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $311.22 | ↓ -82% |
| PPHP | All Products | $326.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $450.64 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $509.01 | ↓ -70% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $544.40 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Acop | $581.55 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $601.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $604.66 | ↓ -64% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $611.93 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Premier | $653.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $662.69 | ↓ -61% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,012.45 | ↓ -40% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,014.51 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,112.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,144.52 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,144.52 | ↓ -32% |
| United | All Products | $1,199.06 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,288.35 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,304.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,382.66 | ↓ -18% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,520.46 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,564.80 | ↓ -8% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,680.64 | ↓ -1% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,769.09 | ↑ +4% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,825.60 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,825.60 | ↑ +8% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +10% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +10% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,857.54 | ↑ +10% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,875.24 | ↑ +11% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,946.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,956.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,956.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $2,086.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $2,347.20 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $2,608.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $8,544.18 | ↑ +404% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,544.18 | ↑ +404% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $8,544.18 | ↑ +404% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $8,544.18 | ↑ +404% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,843.23 | ↑ +422% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,956.00 | ↑ +428% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,956.00 | ↑ +428% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,956.00 | ↑ +428% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $8,956.00 | ↑ +428% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $8,956.00 | ↑ +428% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9,224.68 | ↑ +444% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $9,227.72 | ↑ +444% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $9,672.48 | ↑ +471% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,851.60 | ↑ +481% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $15,728.38 | ↑ +828% |
| MMO | NASCO | $15,728.38 | ↑ +828% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $22,553.01 | ↑ +1230% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $23,052.75 | ↑ +1260% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $26,533.05 | ↑ +1465% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Kidney endoscopy & biopsy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,695.20 | $1.10 – $8,956.00 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,695.20 | $1.10 – $9,224.68 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,802.45 – $9,851.60 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,942.76 – $3,407.40 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,846.66 – $9,851.60 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,734.84 – $9,851.60 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,651.63 – $9,851.60 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,807.44 – $9,851.60 |