Chorion biopsy at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$347.50
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.
$695.00
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.
$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $1,742.74 with HSTechnology — 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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| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $84.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $98.00 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $144.00 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $166.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $228.52 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $301.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $312.91 | ↓ -10% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $313.20 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $348.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $430.94 | ↑ +24% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $464.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $464.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $466.32 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $472.12 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $489.52 | ↑ +41% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,316.13 | ↑ +279% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,316.13 | ↑ +279% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,361.52 | ↑ +292% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,742.74 | ↑ +402% |
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Chorion biopsy at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $1,316.13 – $6,071.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | not published | $907.68 – $1,470.44 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $376.80 | $112.81 – $677.40 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $581.81 – $1,361.52 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $352.00 – $1,575.68 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $966.29 – $1,598.96 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | not published | $1,316.13 – $6,071.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $1,316.13 – $4,681.00 |