Map tachycard site(s) at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$3,225.00
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.
$6,450.00
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.
$2,494.46 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $6,291.00 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $2,494.46 | ↓ -23% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $2,541.30 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,696.22 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,838.88 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $3,181.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $3,354.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,479.78 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $3,483.00 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $3,686.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,870.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $3,882.90 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3,960.30 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $5,160.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $5,437.00 | ↑ +69% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6,291.00 | ↑ +95% |
| 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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Map tachycard site(s) at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $2,478.16 – $6,291.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | not published | $990.00 – $6,308.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $1,425.00 | $760.00 – $2,185.00 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $1,705.00 | $1,343.54 – $6,291.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $4,295.00 | $1,527.40 – $6,872.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $5,075.00 | $2,478.16 – $8,120.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $5,622.69 | $112.11 – $3,099.51 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $5,115.00 | $1,166.75 – $9,207.00 |