Insert sq defib electrode at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$12,450.00
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.
$24,900.00
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.
$9,810.60 with Advocate Employee vs $47,462.00 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 | $9,810.60 | ↓ -21% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $12,509.22 | ↑ +0% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $12,509.22 | ↑ +0% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $12,940.57 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $12,948.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $13,433.55 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $13,446.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14,940.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $14,989.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $15,288.60 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $16,508.70 | ↑ +33% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $16,563.93 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $17,853.30 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $18,774.60 | ↑ +51% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $19,920.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $24,003.00 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $27,813.00 | ↑ +123% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $41,007.00 | ↑ +229% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $47,462.00 | ↑ +281% |
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Insert sq defib electrode at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $12,509.22 – $47,462.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | not published | $23,649.00 – $23,649.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $1,057.20 | $1,495.74 – $1,621.04 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $1,057.20 | $2,970.16 – $2,970.16 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $7,470.00 | $5,886.36 – $47,462.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $9,090.00 | $7,162.92 – $24,503.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $7,740.00 | $6,099.12 – $47,462.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $1,112.00 | $393.83 – $6,438.39 |