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Laryngoscopy w/biopsy at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$821.60
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.
$1,264.00
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 $10,449.99 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 | $116.13 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $119.30 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $151.86 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $153.92 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $159.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $162.02 | ↓ -80% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $167.02 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $169.73 | ↓ -79% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $170.12 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $170.12 | ↓ -79% |
| PPHP | All Products | $174.98 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $178.22 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $178.22 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $251.33 | ↓ -69% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $251.33 | ↓ -69% |
| Oscar | All Products | $321.18 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $324.50 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $336.23 | ↓ -59% |
| Summacare | Premier | $364.47 | ↓ -56% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $464.76 | ↓ -43% |
| OHCP | All Products | $491.70 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $510.69 | ↓ -38% |
| United | All Products | $550.43 | ↓ -33% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $624.42 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $632.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $638.31 | ↓ -22% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $638.31 | ↓ -22% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $638.31 | ↓ -22% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $736.91 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $758.40 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $884.80 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $884.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $948.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $948.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,011.20 | ↑ +23% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $1,124.06 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,137.60 | ↑ +38% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,183.22 | ↑ +44% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,242.38 | ↑ +51% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,242.38 | ↑ +51% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,242.38 | ↑ +51% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,254.21 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,264.00 | ↑ +54% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,301.54 | ↑ +58% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,406.67 | ↑ +315% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,406.67 | ↑ +315% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,406.67 | ↑ +315% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,406.67 | ↑ +315% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,525.90 | ↑ +329% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,527.30 | ↑ +329% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,527.30 | ↑ +329% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,527.30 | ↑ +329% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,527.30 | ↑ +329% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,527.30 | ↑ +329% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,633.12 | ↑ +342% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,679.20 | ↑ +348% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,809.49 | ↑ +364% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,880.03 | ↑ +372% |
| MMO | NASCO | $6,393.86 | ↑ +678% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $6,393.86 | ↑ +678% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $8,882.45 | ↑ +981% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $9,079.28 | ↑ +1005% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $10,449.99 | ↑ +1172% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Laryngoscopy w/biopsy at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $821.60 | $1.10 – $3,527.30 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $821.60 | $1.10 – $3,633.12 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,205.53 – $3,880.03 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $1,968.19 – $2,278.96 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,235.10 – $3,880.03 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,160.31 – $3,880.03 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,104.65 – $3,880.03 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,208.86 – $3,880.03 |