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Proctosigmoidoscopy removal at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$338.00
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.
$520.00
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 $7,779.76 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 | $47.51 | ↓ -86% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $50.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $52.34 | ↓ -85% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $52.51 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $52.51 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $55.01 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $55.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $59.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $68.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $76.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Valor | All Products | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $79.60 | ↓ -76% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $83.58 | ↓ -75% |
| PPHP | All Products | $86.96 | ↓ -74% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $113.59 | ↓ -66% |
| Oscar | All Products | $132.13 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $148.59 | ↓ -56% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $162.38 | ↓ -52% |
| Summacare | Premier | $164.26 | ↓ -51% |
| OHCP | All Products | $202.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Acop | $234.96 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $250.87 | ↓ -26% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $256.88 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $260.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $268.32 | ↓ -21% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $288.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $288.50 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $296.43 | ↓ -12% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $303.16 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $312.00 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $364.00 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $364.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $390.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $390.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $416.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $468.00 | ↑ +38% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $488.15 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $520.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $536.39 | ↑ +59% |
| United | All Products | $578.12 | ↑ +71% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $681.46 | ↑ +102% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $2,533.91 | ↑ +650% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $2,533.91 | ↑ +650% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,533.91 | ↑ +650% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $2,533.91 | ↑ +650% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,622.60 | ↑ +676% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,625.99 | ↑ +677% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,625.99 | ↑ +677% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,625.99 | ↑ +677% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,625.99 | ↑ +677% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $2,625.99 | ↑ +677% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,704.77 | ↑ +700% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $2,736.63 | ↑ +710% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $2,836.07 | ↑ +739% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,888.59 | ↑ +755% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $4,793.60 | ↑ +1318% |
| MMO | NASCO | $4,793.60 | ↑ +1318% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $6,612.77 | ↑ +1856% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $6,759.30 | ↑ +1900% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $7,779.76 | ↑ +2202% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Proctosigmoidoscopy removal at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $8,199.75 | $1.10 – $11,353.50 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $8,199.75 | $160.31 – $11,353.50 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $8,199.75 | $160.31 – $11,353.50 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $8,199.75 | $136.93 – $11,353.50 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $8,199.75 | $160.31 – $11,353.50 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $8,199.75 | $136.93 – $11,353.50 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $8,199.75 | $160.31 – $11,353.50 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $8,199.75 | $108.78 – $11,353.50 |