Generator emblem MRI sicd subq at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$18,905.00
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.
$37,810.00
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.
$8,411.21 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $29,643.04 with Multiplan — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $8,411.21 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $9,078.18 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $9,115.23 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $9,596.93 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $10,893.82 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $12,931.78 | ↓ -32% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $14,599.20 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $14,969.74 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $18,526.90 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $19,267.98 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $19,627.40 | ↑ +4% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $20,009.05 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $22,084.06 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $25,567.12 | ↑ +35% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $29,643.04 | ↑ +57% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Generator emblem MRI sicd subq at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $23,584.25 | $16,461.81 – $37,734.80 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $11,129.58 | $16,906.81 – $16,906.81 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $15,964.57 | not published |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $15,964.57 | not published |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $34,429.68 | not published |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $29,000.00 | $9,614.95 – $22,040.00 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $24,210.00 | $8,049.83 – $22,999.50 |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | $21,107.64 | $13,213.38 – $33,772.22 |