Acetylcysteine 200 mg/ml (20 %) intravenous solution at Advocate Trinity Hospital
2320 East 93rd Street, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1558479212
$2.65
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.
$5.30
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.
$0.94 with United Healthcare Charter vs $14.10 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 | $0.94 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $0.94 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1.14 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1.14 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $1.93 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1.93 | ↓ -27% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $2.09 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2.86 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $3.29 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $3.74 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $4.24 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $12.39 | ↑ +368% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $13.40 | ↑ +406% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $14.10 | ↑ +432% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Acetylcysteine 200 mg/ml (20 %) intravenous solution at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago | $143.67 | not published |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $443.54 | $1.10 – $7.32 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | not published | $0.94 – $14.19 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $306.72 | $110.53 – $300.52 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $306.72 | $4.33 – $162.35 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $19.63 | $1.15 – $1.15 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $19.63 | $1.15 – $1.15 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook | Bolingbrook | $19.63 | $1.15 – $1.20 |