Drug test(s) presumptive any class instrument chemistry analyzers 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

$405.00

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.

$810.00

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.

$62.14 with United Healthcare Core Navigate vs $282.74 with Cigna — 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 Core Navigate Commercial $62.14 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $62.14 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare HMO $62.14 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $62.14 ↓ -85%
Advocate Employee Commercial $76.83 ↓ -81%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $90.10 ↓ -78%
Molina Medicare Advantage $90.10 ↓ -78%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $93.21 ↓ -77%
Aetna Commercial $105.20 ↓ -74%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $119.31 ↓ -71%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $120.90 ↓ -70%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $141.96 ↓ -65%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $150.74 ↓ -63%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $153.66 ↓ -62%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $153.66 ↓ -62%
Multiplan Commercial $156.00 ↓ -61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $161.66 ↓ -60%
Cigna One Health Commercial $282.74 ↓ -30%
Cigna Commercial $282.74 ↓ -30%

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Drug test(s) presumptive any class instrument chemistry analyzers at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $543.00 $56.38 – $199.64
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $543.00 $13.34 – $71.46
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $53.75 $60.84 – $100.67
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $380.00 $62.14 – $282.74
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $380.00 $62.14 – $282.74
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $127.20 $3.50 – $99.42
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $53.75 $60.84 – $100.67
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $1,183.05 $62.14 – $65.25

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