Cell count w differential body fluid 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

$82.50

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.

$165.00

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.

$5.60 with United Healthcare Nexus vs $132.00 with Multiplan — 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 Nexus Commercial $5.60 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5.60 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $5.60 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare HMO $5.60 ↓ -93%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $8.12 ↓ -90%
Molina Medicare Advantage $8.12 ↓ -90%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $8.40 ↓ -90%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $10.75 ↓ -87%
Cigna One Health Commercial $25.30 ↓ -69%
Cigna Commercial $25.30 ↓ -69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $28.92 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial $29.87 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $31.27 ↓ -62%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $32.91 ↓ -60%
Advocate Employee Commercial $65.01 ↓ -21%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $102.30 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $127.55 ↑ +55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $130.02 ↑ +58%
Multiplan Commercial $132.00 ↑ +60%

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Cell count w differential body fluid at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $86.40 $4.01 – $56.12
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $86.40 $6.44 – $28.20
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UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $56.44 $3.36 – $31.11
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