Diagnostic anoscopy spx 46600 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

$145.00

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.

$290.00

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.

$105.00 with Cigna One Health vs $6,291.00 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
Cigna One Health Commercial $105.00 ↓ -28%
Cigna Commercial $111.00 ↓ -23%
Advocate Employee Commercial $114.26 ↓ -21%
Aetna Commercial $156.46 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $156.60 ↑ +8%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $194.83 ↑ +34%
Molina Medicare Advantage $194.83 ↑ +34%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $201.55 ↑ +39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $215.47 ↑ +49%
Multiplan Commercial $232.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $232.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $233.16 ↑ +61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $236.06 ↑ +63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $244.76 ↑ +69%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $257.99 ↑ +78%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,181.00 ↑ +2094%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,686.00 ↑ +2442%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,437.00 ↑ +3650%
United Healthcare HMO $6,291.00 ↑ +4239%

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Diagnostic anoscopy spx 46600 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago not published $194.83 – $6,291.00
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago not published $134.37 – $217.68
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $165.00 $253.00 – $353.05
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $165.00 $956.16 – $2,970.16
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $145.00 $105.00 – $6,291.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $145.00 $105.00 – $6,291.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $252.00 $37.28 – $126.31
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $152.90 $142.58 – $149.71

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