Ghs polysom <6 yrs 4/> parameters at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$3,235.00
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.
$6,470.00
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.
$1,537.79 with Molina vs $5,550.02 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 |
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| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,537.79 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,537.79 | ↓ -52% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,590.82 | ↓ -51% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,658.74 | ↓ -49% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $2,036.25 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $2,189.20 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,271.30 | ↓ -30% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2,273.40 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $2,449.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,778.60 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $2,837.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $3,368.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,368.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3,426.94 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $4,182.00 | ↑ +29% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $4,841.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $4,876.69 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $5,271.12 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $5,550.02 | ↑ +72% |
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Ghs polysom <6 yrs 4/> parameters at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $1,419.33 | $1,935.45 – $2,862.12 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $1,537.79 – $5,514.16 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $3,161.40 | $385.48 – $2,912.39 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $3,161.40 | $1,145.61 – $2,476.43 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $1,700.00 | $900.92 – $1,490.79 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $3,235.00 | $1,537.79 – $5,115.74 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $3,235.00 | $1,537.79 – $5,239.25 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $3,263.57 | $112.90 – $1,799.04 |