Ablation cryo abd perit om at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital

3815 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1578670543

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

$1,950.00

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.

$3,900.00

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.

$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $1,876.48 with HSTechnology — 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
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $84.00 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $98.00 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $144.00 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare HMO $166.00 ↓ -91%
Advocate Employee Commercial $882.56 ↓ -55%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,164.80 ↓ -40%
Aetna Commercial $1,208.48 ↓ -38%
Cigna Commercial $1,254.40 ↓ -36%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $1,388.80 ↓ -29%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↓ -27%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↓ -27%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,466.00 ↓ -25%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,630.72 ↓ -16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,731.52 ↓ -11%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,765.12 ↓ -9%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,765.12 ↓ -9%
Multiplan Commercial $1,792.00 ↓ -8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,856.96 ↓ -5%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,876.48 ↓ -4%

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Ablation cryo abd perit om at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1,858.80 $724.46 – $2,850.16
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $1,858.80 $1,962.03 – $2,970.16
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $855.00 $84.00 – $1,876.48
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $4,476.45 $971.94 – $1,020.54
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $1,125.00 $84.00 – $1,876.48
Advocate Sherman Hospital Elgin $3,320.00 $1,417.13 – $5,976.00
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia Centralia $4,476.45 $971.94 – $1,020.54
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $951.53 – $1,574.55

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