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Thoracoscopy w w resect diag 32668 at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$780.00
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.
$1,200.00
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 $2,917.79 with AMERIHEALTH — 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 |
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| Zing Health | Medicare Advantage | $1.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $75.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $79.77 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $83.76 | ↓ -89% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $83.76 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $87.75 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $87.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $95.37 | ↓ -88% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $105.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $124.72 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $139.39 | ↓ -82% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| Valor | All Products | $141.13 | ↓ -82% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $148.19 | ↓ -81% |
| PPHP | All Products | $155.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $209.75 | ↓ -73% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $209.75 | ↓ -73% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $267.01 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | NASCO | $267.01 | ↓ -66% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $284.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $287.91 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Premier | $299.33 | ↓ -62% |
| Oscar | All Products | $304.92 | ↓ -61% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $385.25 | ↓ -51% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $423.33 | ↓ -46% |
| United | All Products | $456.26 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $466.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $532.72 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $532.72 | ↓ -32% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $532.72 | ↓ -32% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $592.80 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | All Products | $600.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $699.60 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $720.00 | ↓ -8% |
| GMS | All Products | $840.00 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $840.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $900.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $900.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $960.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,080.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,200.00 | ↑ +54% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,519.91 | ↑ +223% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,652.54 | ↑ +240% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↑ +257% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↑ +257% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↑ +257% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,811.69 | ↑ +260% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,917.79 | ↑ +274% |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | 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 w w resect diag 32668 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $780.00 | $1.10 – $3,675.86 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $780.00 | $1.10 – $2,847.33 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $2,702.56 – $2,754.04 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $4,412.30 – $5,108.98 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $2,768.84 – $3,206.03 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,601.19 – $3,011.90 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $2,476.41 – $2,867.43 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $2,710.03 – $3,137.93 |