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Tympanic membrane repair at akron general
1 Akron General Avenue, Akron, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1821035940
$1,278.55
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.
$1,967.00
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 $4,348.85 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% |
| Optum | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $139.56 | ↓ -89% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $146.91 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $154.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $154.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $161.60 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $161.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $176.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $182.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $230.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Valor | All Products | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | All Products | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Optum | Medicare Advantage Transplant | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $243.64 | ↓ -81% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $255.82 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $257.34 | ↓ -80% |
| PPHP | All Products | $268.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Facility | $385.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | $476.02 | ↓ -63% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $497.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $499.81 | ↓ -61% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $509.11 | ↓ -60% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $513.18 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Acop | $522.63 | ↓ -59% |
| Summacare | Premier | $552.60 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | $562.46 | ↓ -56% |
| OPTUM | Managed Medicaid Transplant | $745.85 | ↓ -42% |
| OHCP | All Products | $765.16 | ↓ -40% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $785.10 | ↓ -39% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↓ -36% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $824.36 | ↓ -36% |
| United BH | Managed Medicaid | $832.21 | ↓ -35% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $863.61 | ↓ -32% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $936.08 | ↓ -27% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $971.70 | ↓ -24% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician | $979.10 | ↓ -23% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Facility | $979.10 | ↓ -23% |
| OMAS | All Products | $983.50 | ↓ -23% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,028.59 | ↓ -20% |
| United | All Products | $1,108.61 | ↓ -13% |
| Optum | All Products Transplant | $1,146.76 | ↓ -10% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $1,180.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Anthem | All Products Physician Non-Facility | $1,293.03 | ↑ +1% |
| UNITED | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,368.67 | ↑ +7% |
| HUMANA | Medicare Advantage HMO | $1,368.67 | ↑ +7% |
| MMO | Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO | $1,368.67 | ↑ +7% |
| OPTUM | All Products VA | $1,368.67 | ↑ +7% |
| GMS | All Products | $1,376.90 | ↑ +8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $1,376.90 | ↑ +8% |
| The Health Plan | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,416.58 | ↑ +11% |
| Valor | HMO & PPO | $1,467.92 | ↑ +15% |
| ANTHEM | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,467.92 | ↑ +15% |
| UPMC | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,467.92 | ↑ +15% |
| AETNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,467.92 | ↑ +15% |
| Summacare | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,467.92 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $1,475.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Consociate Health | All Products | $1,475.25 | ↑ +15% |
| Perennial Health | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,478.17 | ↑ +16% |
| CIGNA | MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | $1,511.96 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Asa | $1,573.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Perennial Health | HMO I-SNP and HMO C-SNP | $1,585.35 | ↑ +24% |
| PPHP | ALL PRODUCTS | $1,614.71 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $1,770.30 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $1,967.00 | ↑ +54% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $2,603.78 | ↑ +104% |
| MMO | NASCO | $2,603.78 | ↑ +104% |
| ANTHEM | HPN | $3,696.51 | ↑ +189% |
| MMO | ALL PRODUCTS | $3,778.42 | ↑ +196% |
| ANTHEM | PPO/HMO | $4,348.85 | ↑ +240% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
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Tympanic membrane repair at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,851.25 | $0.01 – $5,332.50 |
| mercy hospital | Canton | $1,278.55 | $1.10 – $1,770.30 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $799.91 – $1,614.71 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $1,305.97 – $1,512.17 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $819.53 – $1,614.71 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $769.90 – $1,614.71 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $732.97 – $1,614.71 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $802.12 – $1,614.71 |