Exchange drainage catheter at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$1,950.00
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.
$3,900.00
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.
$1,536.60 with Advocate Employee vs $6,181.00 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.
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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| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,536.60 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $2,028.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,104.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2,106.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,340.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $2,347.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $2,394.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $2,585.70 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,796.30 | ↑ +43% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $2,867.32 | ↑ +47% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $2,867.32 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,940.60 | ↑ +51% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $2,966.19 | ↑ +52% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,120.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $3,126.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $3,622.00 | ↑ +86% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $3,796.72 | ↑ +95% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $5,340.00 | ↑ +174% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6,181.00 | ↑ +217% |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $1,650.00 | $1,300.20 – $6,181.00 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $1,100.00 | $2,013.15 – $3,331.27 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $2,620.00 | $2,064.56 – $6,181.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $2,850.00 | $2,245.80 – $4,636.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $2,375.00 | $1,871.50 – $6,181.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $2,018.51 | $62.88 – $1,475.78 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $1,100.00 | $2,013.15 – $3,331.27 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $2,122.45 | $2,056.34 – $2,159.15 |