Psychotherapy patient individual therapy 30 minutes at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
836 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1912014564
$135.00
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.
$270.00
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.
$94.23 with United Healthcare Charter vs $411.65 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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| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $94.23 | ↓ -30% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $106.38 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $109.08 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $140.40 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $145.67 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $145.80 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $160.92 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $178.20 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $186.30 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $216.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $216.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $219.78 | ↑ +63% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $242.85 | ↑ +80% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $242.85 | ↑ +80% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $251.23 | ↑ +86% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $321.57 | ↑ +138% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $361.70 | ↑ +168% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $390.96 | ↑ +190% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $411.65 | ↑ +205% |
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Psychotherapy patient individual therapy 30 minutes at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $152.50 | $106.45 – $388.60 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $71.61 | $143.55 – $271.33 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $58.80 | $90.16 – $127.71 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $58.80 | $345.86 – $2,970.16 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $200.00 | $139.60 – $379.43 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $152.50 | $120.17 – $321.57 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $200.00 | $139.60 – $388.60 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $168.00 | $34.41 – $125.00 |