Bladder irrigate/lavage/instill 51700 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

$550.00

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.

$1,100.00

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.

$367.61 with Ambetter vs $6,291.00 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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $367.61 ↓ -33%
Molina Medicare Advantage $367.61 ↓ -33%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $380.29 ↓ -31%
Advocate Employee Commercial $433.40 ↓ -21%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $486.77 ↓ -11%
Cigna One Health Commercial $572.00 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $593.45 ↑ +8%
Cigna Commercial $616.00 ↑ +12%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $669.90 ↑ +22%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $682.00 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $684.20 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $784.30 ↑ +43%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $848.10 ↑ +54%
Multiplan Commercial $880.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $893.20 ↑ +62%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,181.00 ↑ +478%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,686.00 ↑ +570%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,437.00 ↑ +889%
United Healthcare HMO $6,291.00 ↑ +1044%

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Bladder irrigate/lavage/instill 51700 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $355.80 $82.51 – $483.30
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $355.80 $120.00 – $278.71
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $131.25 $262.12 – $433.74
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $525.00 $367.61 – $6,291.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $515.00 $367.61 – $4,528.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $713.28 $26.94 – $393.19
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $131.25 $262.12 – $433.74
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $349.80 $267.74 – $281.13

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