Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$18.38
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.
$36.75
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.
$4.34 with Ambetter vs $29.83 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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| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $4.34 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $4.34 | ↓ -76% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $4.49 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $5.05 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $5.05 | ↓ -73% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $5.75 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $5.90 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5.90 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $10.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $10.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $14.44 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $16.63 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $17.98 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $18.93 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $19.77 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $19.79 | ↑ +8% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $29.32 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $29.32 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $29.83 | ↑ +62% |
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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago | $569.10 | not published |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $6,866.96 | $3.13 – $343.15 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $6,866.96 | $3.00 – $185.38 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $1,648.39 | $2.86 – $4.74 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $1,648.39 | $2.86 – $4.74 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook | Bolingbrook | $1,648.39 | $2.93 – $4.74 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Glenoaks | Glendale Heights | $1,648.39 | $2.93 – $4.74 |
| Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital | IL 60190 | $1,292.02 | not published |