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Sigmoidoscopy w/ultrasound at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$606.45
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.
$933.00
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 $2,606.53 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 | $75.09 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $81.86 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $98.20 | ↓ -84% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $102.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $107.98 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $109.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $109.75 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $113.38 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $113.38 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $114.60 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $118.78 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $118.78 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $120.05 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $162.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $162.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $222.65 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Premier | $235.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $237.08 | ↓ -61% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $277.06 | ↓ -54% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $302.40 | ↓ -50% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $332.29 | ↓ -45% |
| United | All Products | $358.14 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $362.94 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $413.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $413.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $413.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $460.90 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $466.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $543.94 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $559.80 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $653.10 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $653.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $699.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $699.75 | ↑ +15% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $706.64 | ↑ +17% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $743.83 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Asa | $746.40 | ↑ +23% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +29% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +29% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $781.02 | ↑ +29% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $788.46 | ↑ +30% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $818.21 | ↑ +35% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $839.70 | ↑ +38% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $842.40 | ↑ +39% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $842.40 | ↑ +39% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $842.40 | ↑ +39% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $842.40 | ↑ +39% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $871.89 | ↑ +44% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +45% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $879.81 | ↑ +45% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +45% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +45% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $879.81 | ↑ +45% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $906.21 | ↑ +49% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $909.79 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $933.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $950.20 | ↑ +57% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $967.79 | ↑ +60% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,560.83 | ↑ +157% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,560.83 | ↑ +157% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $2,215.54 | ↑ +265% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,264.64 | ↑ +273% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $2,606.53 | ↑ +330% |
| 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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Sigmoidoscopy w/ultrasound at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $2,726.10 | $1.10 – $3,774.60 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $606.45 | $1.10 – $906.21 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,027.00 | $879.81 – $3,632.40 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $3,027.00 | $879.81 – $3,632.40 |
| University Hospitals Conneaut Medical Center | Conneaut | $2,856.00 | not published |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $3,027.00 | $879.81 – $1,583.66 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $3,027.00 | $879.81 – $1,583.66 |
| University Hospitals Geneva Medical Center | Geneva | $2,856.00 | not published |