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Lap sleeve gastrectomy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$5,828.55
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.
$8,967.00
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 $9,608.00 with UNITED — 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 | $667.38 | ↓ -89% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $686.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $702.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $737.63 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $737.63 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $744.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $772.75 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $772.75 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $897.97 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Valor | All Products | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $992.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $1,003.62 | ↓ -83% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $1,042.00 | ↓ -82% |
| PPHP | All Products | $1,091.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,504.65 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,504.65 | ↓ -74% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,908.48 | ↓ -67% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,908.48 | ↓ -67% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $2,024.46 | ↓ -65% |
| Summacare | Premier | $2,155.14 | ↓ -63% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $2,274.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $2,278.51 | ↓ -61% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,388.82 | ↓ -59% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,514.55 | ↓ -57% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,640.28 | ↓ -55% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,640.28 | ↓ -55% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,640.28 | ↓ -55% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,665.42 | ↓ -54% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,761.98 | ↓ -53% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,766.01 | ↓ -53% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $3,034.93 | ↓ -48% |
| United | All Products | $3,271.05 | ↓ -44% |
| OHCP | All Products | $3,488.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $3,821.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $3,821.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $3,821.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $4,429.70 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $4,483.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $5,227.76 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $5,380.20 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $6,276.90 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $6,276.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $6,725.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $6,725.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $7,173.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $8,070.30 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $8,967.00 | ↑ +54% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,608.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Lap sleeve gastrectomy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $5,828.55 | $1.10 – $8,070.30 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $5,828.55 | $1.10 – $8,070.30 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,561.97 – $2,610.77 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,182.77 – $4,843.21 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $2,624.80 – $3,039.25 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,465.88 – $2,855.23 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,347.59 – $2,718.27 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,569.06 – $2,974.70 |