Icd crtp serena MRI at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
3815 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1578670543
$11,436.05
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.
$22,872.09
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.
$7,486.88 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $17,932.64 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.
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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $7,486.88 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $7,823.11 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $7,957.61 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $8,114.52 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $8,114.52 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $8,540.42 | ↓ -25% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $8,831.83 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $9,055.98 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $11,207.90 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $11,656.22 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $11,873.65 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $13,359.82 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $13,897.80 | ↑ +22% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $15,466.90 | ↑ +35% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $17,932.64 | ↑ +57% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Icd crtp serena MRI at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $15,727.80 | $5,210.88 – $14,167.08 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $15,727.80 | $7,327.80 – $7,653.48 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $7,365.92 | not published |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $9,732.26 | $4,807.20 – $15,260.96 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $10,506.71 | $4,407.16 – $16,475.36 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $12,654.16 | $4,286.60 – $8,335.93 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $7,365.92 | not published |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $9,615.70 | not published |