Excise anal ext tag/papilla at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$1,710.00
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.
$3,420.00
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.
$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $2,886.48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $84.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $98.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $144.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $166.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,347.48 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,778.40 | ↑ +4% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,782.19 | ↑ +4% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,782.19 | ↑ +4% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,843.64 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,845.09 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,846.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,052.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $2,359.87 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $2,541.06 | ↑ +49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $2,736.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,736.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,749.68 | ↑ +61% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $2,783.88 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,886.48 | ↑ +69% |
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Excise anal ext tag/papilla at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $1,782.19 – $6,181.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $383.40 | $587.88 – $1,447.67 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $383.40 | $2,970.16 – $2,970.16 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $559.20 | $109.52 – $917.28 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $1,104.40 | $1,282.34 – $1,346.46 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $1,104.40 | $1,282.34 – $1,346.46 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $430.00 – $2,077.40 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | not published | $1,782.19 – $6,181.00 |