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Thoracoscopy lymph node exc at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,071.20
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.
$1,648.00
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 $1,648.00 with Aetna — 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 | $103.56 | ↓ -90% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $109.01 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $114.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $114.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $119.91 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $119.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $131.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $145.71 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $171.52 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $191.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $194.28 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $203.99 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $213.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $287.16 | ↓ -73% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $287.16 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $365.57 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | NASCO | $365.57 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $387.22 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $396.33 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Premier | $411.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $418.76 | ↓ -61% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $529.74 | ↓ -51% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $534.53 | ↓ -50% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $562.66 | ↓ -47% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $582.09 | ↓ -46% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $590.79 | ↓ -45% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $590.79 | ↓ -45% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $590.79 | ↓ -45% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $596.42 | ↓ -44% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $618.93 | ↓ -42% |
| United | All Products | $627.37 | ↓ -41% |
| OHCP | All Products | $641.07 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $729.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $729.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $729.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $814.11 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $824.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $960.78 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $988.80 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,153.60 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,153.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,236.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,236.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,318.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,483.20 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,648.00 | ↑ +54% |
| 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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Thoracoscopy lymph node exc at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $1,071.20 | $1.10 – $1,483.20 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,071.20 | $1.10 – $1,483.20 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $573.27 – $584.19 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $935.95 – $1,083.73 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $587.33 – $680.06 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $551.77 – $638.89 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $525.30 – $608.25 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $574.85 – $665.62 |