Amitriptyline (elavil) -sendout at Advocate Trinity Hospital
2320 East 93rd Street, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1558479212
$347.50
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.
$695.00
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.
$34.90 with United Healthcare Charter vs $94.02 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 | $34.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $39.40 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $40.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $52.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $53.95 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $59.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $62.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $69.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $70.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $71.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $80.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $82.60 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $89.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $94.02 | ↓ -73% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Amitriptyline (elavil) -sendout at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $347.50 | $34.90 – $89.87 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $85.14 | $0.02 – $51.24 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $208.20 | $11.24 – $319.24 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $288.60 | $30.44 – $75.20 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $26.50 | $29.23 – $161.55 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $347.50 | $34.90 – $87.22 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $347.50 | $39.40 – $80.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $347.50 | $34.90 – $89.33 |