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Sig w/tndsc balloon dilation at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$357.50
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.
$550.00
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 | $47.18 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $52.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $61.70 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $68.96 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Valor | All Products | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $70.61 | ↓ -80% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $74.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $75.29 | ↓ -79% |
| PPHP | All Products | $77.67 | ↓ -78% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $79.25 | ↓ -78% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $83.21 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $83.21 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $87.18 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $87.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $103.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Oscar | All Products | $139.76 | ↓ -61% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $144.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Premier | $148.08 | ↓ -59% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $203.81 | ↓ -43% |
| OHCP | All Products | $213.95 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $262.73 | ↓ -27% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $262.73 | ↓ -27% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $271.70 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $275.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $320.65 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $330.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $385.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $385.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $412.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $412.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $440.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $495.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $549.20 | ↑ +54% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $550.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $587.37 | ↑ +64% |
| Aetna | Acop | $589.92 | ↑ +65% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $648.93 | ↑ +82% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $706.64 | ↑ +98% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $743.83 | ↑ +108% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +118% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +118% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +118% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $788.46 | ↑ +121% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $818.21 | ↑ +129% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,063.76 | ↑ +198% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,089.45 | ↑ +205% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,089.45 | ↑ +205% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,089.45 | ↑ +205% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,089.45 | ↑ +205% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,127.58 | ↑ +215% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +217% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +217% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,132.12 | ↑ +217% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +217% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,132.12 | ↑ +217% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,166.08 | ↑ +226% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,168.88 | ↑ +227% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,176.60 | ↑ +229% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $1,222.68 | ↑ +242% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,245.33 | ↑ +248% |
| United | All Products | $1,259.82 | ↑ +252% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,491.81 | ↑ +317% |
| MMO | NASCO | $2,014.21 | ↑ +463% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $2,014.21 | ↑ +463% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $2,850.89 | ↑ +697% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,914.06 | ↑ +715% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $3,354.00 | ↑ +838% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Sig w/tndsc balloon dilation at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,525.60 | $1.10 – $4,881.60 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $357.50 | $1.10 – $1,166.08 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $2,738.25 | $806.87 – $3,285.90 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $2,738.25 | $900.00 – $3,285.90 |
| University Hospitals Conneaut Medical Center | Conneaut | $2,581.50 | not published |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $2,738.25 | $1,132.12 – $2,037.81 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $2,738.25 | $1,132.12 – $2,037.81 |
| University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center | Geneva | $2,581.50 | not published |