Pm device progr eval dual at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$240.00

Cash price

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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.

$480.00

Gross charge

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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.

$56.36 with Ambetter vs $473.15 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $56.36 ↓ -77%
Molina Medicare Advantage $56.36 ↓ -77%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $58.31 ↓ -76%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $74.63 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $167.52 ↓ -30%
Advocate Employee Commercial $189.12 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $193.92 ↓ -19%
Cigna One Health Commercial $249.60 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $258.96 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $259.20 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $286.08 ↑ +19%
Cigna Commercial $316.80 ↑ +32%
United Healthcare HMO $331.20 ↑ +38%
Multiplan Commercial $384.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $384.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $390.72 ↑ +63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $415.74 ↑ +73%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $449.37 ↑ +87%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $473.15 ↑ +97%

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Pm device progr eval dual at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Trinity Hospital Chicago not published $56.36 – $470.09
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago not published $38.87 – $244.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $93.75 $39.15 – $64.79
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $240.00 $56.36 – $436.12
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $240.00 $56.36 – $384.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $240.00 $56.36 – $446.65
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $164.80 $29.01 – $81.19
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $93.75 not published

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