Ghs nerve block suprascapular at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$1,220.00
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.
$2,440.00
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 $1,386.04 with HSTechnology — 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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| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $84.00 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $98.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $144.00 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $166.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $642.22 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $847.60 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $879.39 | ↓ -28% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $880.20 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $978.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $981.26 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,000.82 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,046.75 | ↓ -14% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,046.75 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,080.69 | ↓ -11% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,082.85 | ↓ -11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,168.71 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,229.02 | ↑ +1% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,304.00 | ↑ +7% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,386.04 | ↑ +14% |
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Ghs nerve block suprascapular at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $895.00 | $705.26 – $6,071.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | not published | $721.90 – $1,169.48 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $639.60 | $341.12 – $2,573.12 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $639.60 | $166.00 – $757.74 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $435.00 | $430.00 – $1,225.43 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $895.00 | $705.26 – $6,071.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $1,253.80 | $50.20 – $691.16 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $435.00 | $430.00 – $1,225.43 |