Insertion tunneled centrally inserted central venous access device with port >= 5 years old (both sides) at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
3815 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1578670543
$5,520.00
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.
$11,040.00
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.
$4,349.76 with Advocate Employee vs $17,439.00 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.
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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| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $4,349.76 | ↓ -21% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $4,757.47 | ↓ -14% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $4,757.47 | ↓ -14% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $4,921.53 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $5,740.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5,956.08 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,182.40 | ↑ +12% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $6,299.55 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $6,723.36 | ↑ +22% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $6,844.80 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $6,866.88 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $7,871.52 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $8,511.84 | ↑ +54% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $8,821.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $8,832.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $8,964.48 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $10,219.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $15,068.00 | ↑ +173% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $17,439.00 | ↑ +216% |
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Insertion tunneled centrally inserted central venous access device with port >= 5 years old (both sides) at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $2,550.00 | $1,360.00 – $4,921.53 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $2,278.20 | $2,970.16 – $2,970.16 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $1,875.00 | $658.00 – $5,481.46 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $5,160.00 | $4,066.08 – $17,439.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $5,035.00 | $3,967.58 – $9,476.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $5,236.80 | $293.32 – $2,448.63 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $1,875.00 | $658.00 – $5,481.46 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $3,686.65 | $3,383.62 – $3,552.80 |