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Removal of hydroceles at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$2,442.70
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.
$3,758.00
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 $10,035.32 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 | $314.77 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $344.97 | ↓ -86% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $372.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $392.11 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $411.62 | ↓ -83% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $411.72 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $411.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $431.32 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $431.32 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $459.96 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $460.05 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $482.96 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $505.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $679.20 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $679.20 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $906.20 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $938.32 | ↓ -62% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $946.85 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $954.91 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $987.89 | ↓ -60% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $996.68 | ↓ -59% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,046.51 | ↓ -57% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,046.51 | ↓ -57% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,046.51 | ↓ -57% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $1,056.48 | ↓ -57% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,096.35 | ↓ -55% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,265.79 | ↓ -48% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,390.88 | ↓ -43% |
| OHCP | All Products | $1,461.86 | ↓ -40% |
| United | All Products | $1,499.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $1,725.03 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,725.03 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $1,725.03 | ↓ -29% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $1,856.45 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $1,879.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $2,190.91 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $2,254.80 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $2,630.60 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $2,630.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $2,818.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $2,818.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $3,006.40 | ↑ +23% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $3,260.78 | ↑ +33% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $3,260.78 | ↑ +33% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $3,260.78 | ↑ +33% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,260.78 | ↑ +33% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,374.91 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $3,382.20 | ↑ +38% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,387.33 | ↑ +39% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $3,387.33 | ↑ +39% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,387.33 | ↑ +39% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,387.33 | ↑ +39% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,387.33 | ↑ +39% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,488.95 | ↑ +43% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $3,521.64 | ↑ +44% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $3,658.32 | ↑ +50% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,726.07 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $3,758.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $5,906.43 | ↑ +142% |
| MMO | NASCO | $5,906.43 | ↑ +142% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $8,529.99 | ↑ +249% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $8,719.00 | ↑ +257% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $10,035.32 | ↑ +311% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal of hydroceles at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,442.70 | $1.10 – $3,387.33 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $2,442.70 | $1.10 – $3,488.95 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,015.48 – $3,726.07 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $1,657.91 – $1,919.69 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,040.38 – $3,726.07 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $977.39 – $3,726.07 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $930.51 – $3,726.07 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,018.29 – $3,726.07 |