Chemo intralesional over 7 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.

$318.46 with Ambetter vs $1,435.00 with United Healthcare — 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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $318.46 ↓ -21%
Molina Medicare Advantage $318.46 ↓ -21%
Advocate Employee Commercial $319.14 ↓ -21%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $329.44 ↓ -19%
Cigna One Health Commercial $421.20 ↑ +4%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $421.68 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $437.00 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $437.40 ↑ +8%
Cigna Commercial $534.60 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $648.00 ↑ +60%
Multiplan Commercial $648.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $659.34 ↑ +63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $706.76 ↑ +75%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $725.00 ↑ +79%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $763.93 ↑ +89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $804.35 ↑ +99%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $842.00 ↑ +108%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $1,240.00 ↑ +206%
United Healthcare HMO $1,435.00 ↑ +254%

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Chemo intralesional over 7 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago $192.06 $219.63 – $414.80
Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago not published $318.46 – $799.15
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $405.00 $318.46 – $1,435.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $237.60 $40.64 – $206.45
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $50.82 – $329.44
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $137.63 – $234.85
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville not published $318.46 – $492.30
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $318.46 – $799.15

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