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Thoracoscopy w/mediast exc at mercy hospital
1320 Mercy Drive Northwest, Canton, OH · Cleveland Clinic · · NPI 1366433195
$3,897.40
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.
$5,996.00
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% |
| Summacare | Preferred | $547.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Lower Level | $547.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage Psych | $633.11 | ↓ -84% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage CNA | $716.44 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Managed Medicaid | $794.73 | ↓ -80% |
| Summacare | Medicare Advantage MD | $800.73 | ↓ -79% |
| Caresource | Managed Medicaid | $818.57 | ↓ -79% |
| Buckeye | Managed Medicaid | $834.47 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare Advantage HMO | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare Advantage | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Medicare Advantage | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare Advantage | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| The Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| Anthem | Medicare Advantage | $844.14 | ↓ -78% |
| MMO | Medicare HMO & PPO | $869.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Managed Medicaid | $874.20 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth | Managed Medicaid | $874.20 | ↓ -78% |
| CommuniCare | Medicare Advantage | $886.35 | ↓ -77% |
| Summacare | Premier | $886.35 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | PPO | $903.23 | ↓ -77% |
| Perennial Health | Medicare Advantage | $911.67 | ↓ -77% |
| The Health Plan | All Products PCP | $928.55 | ↓ -76% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Specialty Physicians | $970.76 | ↓ -75% |
| The Health Plan | All Products Radiation Oncology Physicians | $1,097.38 | ↓ -72% |
| Anthem | All Products Mid-Level Non-Facility | $1,194.01 | ↓ -69% |
| MMO | SuperMed | $1,523.20 | ↓ -61% |
| Oscar | All Products | $1,523.58 | ↓ -61% |
| United | All Products - Mid-Level | $1,982.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Aultcare | PPO/HMO | $2,146.57 | ↓ -45% |
| United | All Products | $2,202.97 | ↓ -43% |
| United | HMO & PPO | $2,202.97 | ↓ -43% |
| OHCP | All Products | $2,332.44 | ↓ -40% |
| UNITED | Managed Medicaid | $2,588.48 | ↓ -34% |
| CARESOURCE | Managed Medicaid | $2,666.13 | ↓ -32% |
| MOLINA | Managed Medicaid | $2,717.90 | ↓ -30% |
| ANTHEM | Managed Medicaid | $2,717.90 | ↓ -30% |
| AMERIHEALTH | Managed Medicaid | $2,847.33 | ↓ -27% |
| OMAS | All Products | $2,998.00 | ↓ -23% |
| PHPHI | All Products | $3,597.60 | ↓ -8% |
| MMO | Traditional | $4,197.20 | ↑ +8% |
| GMS | All Products | $4,197.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | All Products First Health | $4,497.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Immergrun | All Products | $4,497.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Asa | $4,796.80 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | All Products | $5,396.40 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Qhp/Ifp | $5,996.00 | ↑ +54% |
| The Health Plan | HMO | $1,276,448.04 | ↑ +32651% |
| The Health Plan | POS | $4,036,081.00 | ↑ +103458% |
| Aetna | ALL PRODUCTS | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Acop | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Mid-Level | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | All Products Physician | not published by hospital | — |
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Thoracoscopy w/mediast exc at other Ohio hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| cleveland clinic main campus | Cleveland | $3,897.40 | $1.10 – $5,396.40 |
| akron general | Akron | $3,897.40 | $1.10 – $5,396.40 |
| 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 |