Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
3815 Highland Avenue, Downers Grove, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1578670543
$25.48
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$50.96
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$2.21 with United Healthcare Charter vs $42.25 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $2.21 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $2.21 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.82 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $2.82 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $4.53 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $4.53 | ↓ -82% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $20.08 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $27.49 | ↑ +8% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $31.60 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $37.10 | ↑ +46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $39.39 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $40.16 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $40.16 | ↑ +58% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $40.77 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $42.25 | ↑ +66% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $115.80 | $2.71 – $2.71 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $16.81 | $2.21 – $26.89 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $58.98 | $2.82 – $64.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $20.56 | $1.03 – $1.90 |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $31.58 | $2.21 – $50.52 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $39.78 | $2.82 – $71.60 |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | $23.27 | $2.21 – $45.32 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $13.72 | $2.21 – $21.94 |