Viper venom prothrombin time 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

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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.

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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.

$17.49 with United Healthcare Core Navigate vs $78.87 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 $17.49
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $17.49
United Healthcare HMO $17.49
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $17.49
Molina Medicare Advantage $25.36
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $25.36
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $26.24
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $33.58
Aetna Commercial $51.85
Cigna One Health Commercial $78.87
Cigna Commercial $78.87

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Viper venom prothrombin time at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $35.20 $3.50 – $27.98
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $3.59 – $3.59
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $9.71 – $20.11
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $10.77 – $28.33
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $17.49 – $78.87
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville not published $17.49 – $78.87
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange not published $10.35 – $28.33
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon not published $17.49 – $18.36

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