#creutz-prot.,western blot at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$400.00
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.
$800.00
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.
$29.21 with United Healthcare vs $160.88 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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 | HMO | $29.21 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $29.21 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $29.21 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $29.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $42.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $42.35 | ↓ -89% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $43.82 | ↓ -89% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $56.08 | ↓ -86% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $65.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $89.10 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $97.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $132.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $132.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $132.44 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $132.44 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $134.31 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $141.36 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $152.79 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $160.88 | ↓ -60% |
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#creutz-prot.,western blot at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $400.00 | $29.21 – $151.87 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $39.93 | $29.21 – $121.23 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $559.80 | $33.06 – $368.92 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $559.80 | $33.59 – $94.47 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $43.75 | $20.24 – $47.32 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $400.00 | $29.21 – $148.29 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $400.00 | $29.21 – $132.44 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $400.00 | $29.21 – $151.87 |