Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$405.00

Cash price

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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.

$810.00

Gross charge

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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.

$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $524.00 with Multiplan — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $84.00 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $98.00 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $144.00 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare HMO $166.00 ↓ -59%
Molina Medicare Advantage $238.50 ↓ -41%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $238.50 ↓ -41%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $246.73 ↓ -39%
Advocate Employee Commercial $258.07 ↓ -36%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $315.81 ↓ -22%
Cigna One Health Commercial $340.60 ↓ -16%
Aetna Commercial $353.37 ↓ -13%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $353.70 ↓ -13%
Cigna Commercial $393.00 ↓ -3%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $394.31 ↓ -3%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $402.17 ↓ -1%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $434.27 ↑ +7%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $469.64 ↑ +16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $493.87 ↑ +22%
Multiplan Commercial $524.00 ↑ +29%

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Application multi layer compression below knee (both sides) at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago $290.00 $84.00 – $360.00
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago not published $164.48 – $266.46
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $280.20 $99.52 – $2,143.62
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $98.40 $527.06 – $2,970.16
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $87.50 $170.48 – $282.10
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $300.00 $84.00 – $392.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $360.00 $116.00 – $472.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $654.08 $24.63 – $180.28

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