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Sgmdsc w/band ligation at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$480.35
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.
$739.00
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 $3,354.00 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 | $61.17 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $67.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $79.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $89.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $89.74 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $94.23 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $98.71 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $132.79 | ↓ -72% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $183.07 | ↓ -62% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $185.88 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $187.78 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Premier | $191.98 | ↓ -60% |
| OHCP | All Products | $287.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $337.26 | ↓ -30% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $337.26 | ↓ -30% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $365.07 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $369.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $430.84 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $443.40 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $517.30 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $517.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $554.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $554.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $591.20 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $665.10 | ↑ +38% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $706.64 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $739.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $743.83 | ↑ +55% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $743.83 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Acop | $766.88 | ↑ +60% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +63% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +63% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +63% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $788.46 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $805.04 | ↑ +68% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $818.21 | ↑ +70% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $861.00 | ↑ +79% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $951.24 | ↑ +98% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,089.45 | ↑ +127% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,089.45 | ↑ +127% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,089.45 | ↑ +127% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,089.45 | ↑ +127% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,127.58 | ↑ +135% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +136% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +136% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +136% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,132.12 | ↑ +136% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +136% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,166.08 | ↑ +143% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,176.60 | ↑ +145% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $1,222.68 | ↑ +155% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,245.33 | ↑ +159% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,560.09 | ↑ +225% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,714.26 | ↑ +257% |
| United | All Products | $1,847.64 | ↑ +285% |
| MMO | NASCO | $2,014.21 | ↑ +319% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $2,014.21 | ↑ +319% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,186.75 | ↑ +355% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $2,850.89 | ↑ +494% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,914.06 | ↑ +507% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $3,354.00 | ↑ +598% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Sgmdsc w/band ligation at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,525.60 | $0.01 – $4,881.60 |
| avon hospital | Avon | $3,525.60 | $188.30 – $4,881.60 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | $3,525.60 | $188.30 – $4,881.60 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | $3,525.60 | $160.84 – $4,881.60 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | $3,525.60 | $188.30 – $4,881.60 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | $3,525.60 | $160.84 – $4,881.60 |
| marymount hospital | Garfield Heights | $3,525.60 | $188.30 – $4,881.60 |
| medina hospital | Medina | $3,525.60 | $127.78 – $4,881.60 |