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Thoracotomy with cardiac massage at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$3,835.65
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.
$5,901.00
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 $5,901.00 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% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $491.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $513.13 | ↓ -87% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $540.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $566.81 | ↓ -85% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $567.15 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $567.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $594.15 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $594.15 | ↓ -85% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $642.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $718.38 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Valor | All Products | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $755.74 | ↓ -80% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $793.53 | ↓ -79% |
| PPHP | All Products | $816.69 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $1,066.05 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,066.05 | ↓ -72% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,286.42 | ↓ -66% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $1,307.02 | ↓ -66% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,331.48 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | NASCO | $1,358.34 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,358.34 | ↓ -65% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $1,397.06 | ↓ -64% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $1,515.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $1,541.71 | ↓ -60% |
| Summacare | Premier | $1,542.63 | ↓ -60% |
| OSCAR | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,668.80 | ↓ -56% |
| PHPHI | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,888.32 | ↓ -51% |
| PHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,888.32 | ↓ -51% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $1,965.46 | ↓ -49% |
| OHCP | All Products | $2,038.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Summacare | PREMIER | $2,118.46 | ↓ -45% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $2,159.70 | ↓ -44% |
| United | All Products | $2,327.73 | ↓ -39% |
| CC EHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,389.91 | ↓ -38% |
| UNITED | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,453.00 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $2,519.91 | ↓ -34% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,588.56 | ↓ -33% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,620.00 | ↓ -32% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,652.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Amish Community Aid Plan | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,655.45 | ↓ -31% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $2,707.55 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $2,707.55 | ↓ -29% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $2,707.55 | ↓ -29% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↓ -27% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↓ -27% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,785.17 | ↓ -27% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $2,811.69 | ↓ -27% |
| OHCP | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,867.89 | ↓ -25% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,917.79 | ↓ -24% |
| OMAS | ALL PRODUCTS | $2,950.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $3,054.92 | ↓ -20% |
| MMO | TRADITIONAL | $3,074.42 | ↓ -20% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $3,144.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Ohio Healthy | TRANSPLANT | $3,186.54 | ↓ -17% |
| ANTHEM | TRADITIONAL | $3,263.25 | ↓ -15% |
| OPTUM | All Products Transplant | $3,339.97 | ↓ -13% |
| UPMC | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,540.60 | ↓ -8% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $3,540.60 | ↓ -8% |
| AETNA | Acop | $3,540.60 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $3,668.00 | ↓ -4% |
| GMS | All Products | $3,668.00 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $3,930.00 | ↑ +2% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $3,930.00 | ↑ +2% |
| The Health Plan | ASO Self-Funded | $4,071.69 | ↑ +6% |
| AETNA | Asa_Whirlpool_Peia | $4,130.70 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,130.70 | ↑ +8% |
| AETNA | International | $4,130.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Medical Benefit Corp | Transplant SMCP | $4,130.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Asa | $4,192.00 | ↑ +9% |
| AETNA | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,425.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | ALL PRODUCTS | $4,425.75 | ↑ +15% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $4,716.00 | ↑ +23% |
| Evernorth (Cigna BH) | All Products Psychiatrist | $4,720.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $5,240.00 | ↑ +37% |
| FrontPath | TRANSPLANT | $5,310.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Tertiary Care Network | TRANSPLANT | $5,310.90 | ↑ +38% |
| MULTIPLAN | ALL PRODUCTS | $5,310.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Managed Care Services | TRANSPLANT | $5,310.90 | ↑ +38% |
| AETNA | Qhp/Ipf | $5,901.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| CommuniCare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
| United BH | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| AETNA | NAP | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | not published by hospital | — |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | not published by hospital | — |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | not published by hospital | — |
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Thoracotomy with cardiac massage at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,835.65 | $1.10 – $5,310.90 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $3,406.00 | $1.10 – $4,716.00 |
| University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center | Beachwood | $4,610.25 | $751.99 – $5,532.30 |
| University Hospitals Beachwood Medical Center | Beachwood | $4,610.25 | $354.94 – $5,532.30 |
| University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center | Elyria | $4,610.25 | $751.99 – $1,353.58 |
| University Hospitals Regional Hospitals - Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | $4,610.25 | $751.99 – $1,353.58 |
| University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center | Willoughby OH 44094|7590 Auburn Road | $4,610.25 | $428.63 – $1,353.58 |
| University Hospitals Parma Medical Center | Parma OH 44129|7007 Powers Boulevard | $4,610.25 | $751.99 – $1,353.58 |