Cystometrogram w/up 51727 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

$765.00

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.

$1,530.00

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.

$602.82 with Advocate Employee vs $6,071.00 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
Advocate Employee Commercial $602.82 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $795.60 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $825.44 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $826.20 ↑ +8%
Cigna Commercial $918.00 ↑ +20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $921.06 ↑ +20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $939.42 ↑ +23%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,008.89 ↑ +32%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,008.89 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,014.39 ↑ +33%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,043.68 ↑ +36%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,097.01 ↑ +43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,153.62 ↑ +51%
Multiplan Commercial $1,224.00 ↑ +60%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,335.91 ↑ +75%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,070.00 ↑ +301%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,558.00 ↑ +365%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,246.00 ↑ +586%
United Healthcare HMO $6,071.00 ↑ +694%

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Cystometrogram w/up 51727 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago not published $1,008.89 – $6,071.00
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago not published $695.78 – $1,127.16
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $600.60 $393.65 – $920.92
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $600.60 $1,066.10 – $2,970.16
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $851.20 $95.13 – $629.33
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $731.54 – $1,210.52
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $1,008.89 – $6,071.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville not published $1,008.89 – $4,681.00

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