Aspir/inj thyroid cyst 60300 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

$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.

$1,900.00

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.

$748.60 with Advocate Employee vs $6,071.00 with United Healthcare — 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
Advocate Employee Commercial $748.60 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $988.00 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $1,025.05 ↑ +8%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,063.48 ↑ +12%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,063.48 ↑ +12%
Cigna Commercial $1,064.00 ↑ +12%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,100.15 ↑ +16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,157.10 ↑ +22%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $1,178.00 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,181.80 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,354.70 ↑ +43%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,408.20 ↑ +48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,464.90 ↑ +54%
Multiplan Commercial $1,520.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,542.80 ↑ +62%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,070.00 ↑ +223%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,558.00 ↑ +275%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,246.00 ↑ +452%
United Healthcare HMO $6,071.00 ↑ +539%

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Aspir/inj thyroid cyst 60300 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $216.60 $332.12 – $660.37
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $216.60 $1,788.45 – $2,970.16
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $557.50 $742.91 – $1,229.33
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $1,120.00 $882.56 – $4,681.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $732.68 $43.78 – $547.36
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $557.50 $742.91 – $1,229.33
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $659.45 $758.85 – $796.79
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $410.00 $323.08 – $6,071.00

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