Barrier skin flextend 2.25in floating flang new image at Advocate Trinity Hospital

2320 East 93rd Street, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1558479212

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

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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.

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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.

$12.57 with Molina vs $37.62 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
Molina Medicare Advantage $12.57
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $12.57
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $13.01
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $16.65
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $33.05
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $35.74
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $37.62

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Barrier skin flextend 2.25in floating flang new image at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago not published $12.57 – $37.86
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1.20 $0.64 – $1.84
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $1.20 $0.90 – $0.94
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $0.94 not published
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $0.94 not published
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook Bolingbrook $0.94 not published
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Glenoaks Glendale Heights $0.94 not published
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $12.57 – $36.75

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