Brace wrist classic lft sm at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$110.00
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.
$220.00
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.
$47.67 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $168.00 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.
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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $47.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $51.45 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $51.66 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $54.39 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $61.74 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $73.29 | ↓ -33% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $82.74 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $84.84 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $105.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $109.20 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $111.24 | ↑ +1% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $113.40 | ↑ +3% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $116.57 | ↑ +6% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $116.57 | ↑ +6% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $120.59 | ↑ +10% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $125.16 | ↑ +14% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $144.90 | ↑ +32% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $154.35 | ↑ +40% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $168.00 | ↑ +53% |
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Brace wrist classic lft sm at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $56.83 | $86.00 – $86.00 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $116.57 – $282.06 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $19.80 | $4.80 – $12.23 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $19.80 | $6.75 – $7.05 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $110.00 | $52.92 – $168.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $110.00 | $73.48 – $176.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $134.40 | $33.49 – $128.62 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $83.27 | not published |