Cefotaxime sodium injection at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
251 E. Huron, Chicago, IL · Nm · · NPI 1497859649
$3,296.47
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.
$4,709.25
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.
$410.99 with AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] vs $2,950.75 with FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034] — 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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| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES | $410.99 | ↓ -88% |
| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMHC IMAGINE HEALTH | $572.00 | ↓ -83% |
| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMH AETNA BP | $635.55 | ↓ -81% |
| CURAECHOICE [6100] | NMHC CURAECHOICE | $690.48 | ↓ -79% |
| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMH AETNA ASA | $747.83 | ↓ -77% |
| IMAGINE HEALTH [6032] | NMHC IMAGINE HEALTH | $796.70 | ↓ -76% |
| HUMANA HEALTH PLAN [130] | NMH CHS IPA | $847.40 | ↓ -74% |
| HUMANA HEALTH PLAN [130] | NMH ADVOCATE IPA | $847.40 | ↓ -74% |
| HUMANA HEALTH PLAN [130] | NMHC SCPP IPA | $953.33 | ↓ -71% |
| HUMANA HEALTH PLAN [130] | NMHC UIC IPA | $1,059.25 | ↓ -68% |
| HEALTHLINK [125] | NMH SEIU HEALTHLINK | $1,059.25 | ↓ -68% |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] | NMHC SCPP IPA | $1,327.84 | ↓ -60% |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] | NMHC CHWN IPA | $1,327.84 | ↓ -60% |
| HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] | NMH HFN PLATINUM/CHC ELITE | $1,377.03 | ↓ -58% |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] | NMHC UIC IPA | $1,475.38 | ↓ -55% |
| MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] | NMH PHCS PPO | $1,694.80 | ↓ -49% |
| CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178] | NMH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (EVERNORTH) | $1,694.80 | ↓ -49% |
| GLOBAL MEDICAL MANAGEMENT INC [6090] | NMHC GMMI | $1,711.44 | ↓ -48% |
| HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] | NMH HFN/20 EPO | $1,737.17 | ↓ -47% |
| HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] | NMH HFN/10 PPO | $1,800.73 | ↓ -45% |
| MEDPARTNERS [6038] | NMHC MEDPARTNERS | $2,065.53 | ↓ -37% |
| GALAXY HEALTH NETWORK [220] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] | NMHC UHC REF LAB JOHN DEERE | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| HEALTHLINK [125] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] | NMH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| OPTUM/UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH [157] | NMH Optum UBH | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] | NMH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,118.50 | ↓ -36% |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,389.50 | ↓ -28% |
| FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034] | NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS | $2,950.75 | ↓ -10% |
| AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] | NMH AETNA TRANSPLANT | not published by hospital | — |
| CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178] | NMH CIGNA LIFESOURCE TRANSPLANT | not published by hospital | — |
| HUMANA HEALTH PLAN [130] | NMH IL HEALTH PARTNERS IPA | not published by hospital | — |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | not published | $9.97 – $23.67 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | not published | $9.97 – $23.51 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $49.51 | $17.55 – $47.71 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $49.51 | $2.73 – $25.77 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $32.68 | not published |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $8.80 | $2.17 – $10.09 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $32.68 | not published |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook | Bolingbrook | $32.68 | $3.67 – $3.67 |