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Appendectomy add-on 44955 at mercy hospital
1320 Mercy Drive Northwest, Canton, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1366433195
$397.80
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.
$612.00
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 $4,036,081.00 with The Health Plan — 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% |
| Oscar | All Products | $41.42 | ↓ -90% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $51.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $51.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $55.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $58.35 | ↓ -85% |
| OHCP | All Products | $63.41 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $67.25 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $71.50 | ↓ -82% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $73.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare Advantage | $74.15 | ↓ -81% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $75.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $75.16 | ↓ -81% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $76.37 | ↓ -81% |
| Summacare | Premier | $77.86 | ↓ -80% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $77.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $78.65 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $78.65 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | PPO | $79.34 | ↓ -80% |
| Perennial Health | Medicare Advantage | $80.08 | ↓ -80% |
| OMAS | All Products | $81.50 | ↓ -80% |
| The Health Plan | All Products PCP | $81.57 | ↓ -79% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Specialty Physicians | $85.27 | ↓ -79% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $88.02 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Radiation Oncology Physicians | $96.40 | ↓ -76% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $97.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $112.85 | ↓ -72% |
| MMO | Traditional | $114.10 | ↓ -71% |
| GMS | All Products | $114.10 | ↓ -71% |
| Immergrun | All Products | $122.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $122.25 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Asa | $130.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $146.70 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $163.00 | ↓ -59% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $186.17 | ↓ -53% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $206.86 | ↓ -48% |
| United | All Products | $206.86 | ↓ -48% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $1,655.18 | ↑ +316% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $1,704.84 | ↑ +329% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $1,737.94 | ↑ +337% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $1,737.94 | ↑ +337% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $1,820.70 | ↑ +358% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,276,448.04 | ↑ +320777% |
| The Health Plan | POS | $4,036,081.00 | ↑ +1014501% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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Appendectomy add-on 44955 at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $397.80 | $1.10 – $2,350.49 |
| akron general | Akron | $397.80 | $1.10 – $1,865.75 |
| avon hospital | Avon | not published | $1,728.12 – $1,761.04 |
| cleveland clinic childrens hospital for rehabilitation | Cleveland | not published | $2,821.41 – $3,266.89 |
| euclid hospital | Euclid | not published | $1,770.51 – $2,050.06 |
| fairview hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,663.31 – $1,925.94 |
| lutheran hospital | Cleveland | not published | $1,583.52 – $1,833.55 |
| hillcrest hospital | Mayfield Heights | not published | $1,732.90 – $2,006.52 |