Brachytx isodose plan simple at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
3815 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1578670543
$810.00
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.
$1,620.00
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.
$553.32 with Ambetter vs $2,429.00 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.
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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| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $553.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $553.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $572.40 | ↓ -29% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $638.28 | ↓ -21% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $732.67 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $809.53 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $842.40 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $873.99 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $875.43 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $921.37 | ↑ +14% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,004.40 | ↑ +24% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $1,039.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,069.20 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $1,225.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,252.26 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,276.56 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,296.00 | ↑ +60% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $2,098.00 | ↑ +159% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,429.00 | ↑ +200% |
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Brachytx isodose plan simple at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $810.00 | $553.32 – $2,429.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $810.00 | $498.95 – $1,601.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $1,041.28 | $68.76 – $574.01 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $810.00 | $553.32 – $2,429.00 |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $810.00 | $553.32 – $2,429.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $242.55 | $193.03 – $1,608.59 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $117.55 – $572.40 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $318.34 – $404.86 |