Cutter lead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$930.73
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.
$1,861.45
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.
$611.33 with United Healthcare Charter vs $1,478.40 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 Charter | Commercial | $611.33 | ↓ -34% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $690.15 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $707.67 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $910.86 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $945.02 | ↑ +2% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $945.90 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $1,043.99 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,156.10 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,208.65 | ↑ +30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,301.48 | ↑ +40% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,401.33 | ↑ +51% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,401.33 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,408.33 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,425.85 | ↑ +53% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,478.40 | ↑ +59% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cutter lead at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $2,924.61 | $342.00 – $783.94 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $1,421.40 | $126.08 – $362.48 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $1,421.40 | $177.30 – $185.18 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $3,994.32 | $364.28 – $835.02 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $2,610.75 | $685.76 – $1,392.40 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $3,214.58 | $335.21 – $768.40 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $1,347.79 | $456.56 – $887.85 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $1,468.52 | not published |