Cardiac perf spect sgl/ef/wm rst/strs 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

$2,035.00

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.

$4,070.00

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.

$1,603.58 with Advocate Employee vs $3,966.00 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 $1,603.58 ↓ -21%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,973.24 ↓ -3%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,973.24 ↓ -3%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $2,006.00 ↓ -1%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $2,041.29 ↑ +0%
Cigna One Health Commercial $2,116.40 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $2,195.77 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $2,292.31 ↑ +13%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $2,324.00 ↑ +14%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $2,478.93 ↑ +22%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $2,523.40 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $2,609.01 ↑ +28%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $2,612.85 ↑ +28%
Cigna Commercial $2,686.20 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $3,146.11 ↑ +55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $3,207.16 ↑ +58%
Multiplan Commercial $3,256.00 ↑ +60%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $3,426.00 ↑ +68%
United Healthcare HMO $3,966.00 ↑ +95%

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Cardiac perf spect sgl/ef/wm rst/strs at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $2,007.60 $895.16 – $3,078.32
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $2,007.60 $497.85 – $1,572.62
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Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $1,345.00 $1,059.86 – $3,966.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,355.00 $1,412.84 – $3,768.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $1,734.17 $59.11 – $1,015.61
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $643.75 $449.28 – $2,247.54
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