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Thyroid (TSH) Test at Advocate Trinity Hospital
2320 East 93rd Street, Chicago, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1558479212
$110.00
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.
$220.00
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.
$16.80 with United Healthcare 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 | HMO | $16.80 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $16.80 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $16.80 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $16.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $19.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $24.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $24.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $25.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $31.00 | ↓ -72% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $32.26 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $35.25 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $35.90 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $40.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $75.89 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $75.89 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $82.60 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $89.33 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $91.03 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $94.02 | ↓ -15% |
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Thyroid (TSH) Test at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $110.00 | $16.80 – $91.03 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $82.80 | $10.76 – $102.12 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $82.20 | $19.32 – $41.36 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $110.00 | $16.80 – $91.03 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $110.00 | $16.80 – $91.03 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $110.00 | $16.80 – $91.03 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $55.00 | $10.08 – $30.32 |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $110.00 | $16.80 – $91.03 |