Dress/debride pt-thick burn/<5% bs 16020 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

$337.50

Cash price

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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.

$675.00

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.

$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $559.58 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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 Charter Commercial $84.00 ↓ -75%
Cigna One Health Commercial $94.00 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $98.00 ↓ -71%
Cigna Commercial $100.00 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $144.00 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare HMO $166.00 ↓ -51%
Advocate Employee Commercial $265.95 ↓ -21%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $300.34 ↓ -11%
Molina Medicare Advantage $300.34 ↓ -11%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $310.69 ↓ -8%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $397.69 ↑ +18%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $418.50 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $491.40 ↑ +46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $521.78 ↑ +55%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $531.90 ↑ +58%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $531.90 ↑ +58%
Multiplan Commercial $540.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $559.58 ↑ +66%
Aetna Commercial not published by hospital

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Dress/debride pt-thick burn/<5% bs 16020 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $304.80 $155.52 – $414.02
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $304.80 $110.00 – $238.76
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $105.00 $210.49 – $348.31
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $337.50 $84.00 – $540.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $337.50 $94.00 – $540.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $374.60 $49.99 – $206.49
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $105.00 $210.49 – $348.31
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $227.70 $215.00 – $225.75

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