Bur rotalink 2.15mm at Advocate Sherman Hospital
1425 North Randall Road, Elgin, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1629026364
$5,516.88
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.
$11,033.75
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.
$3,376.33 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $9,930.38 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 | $3,376.33 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $3,641.14 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $3,839.75 | ↓ -30% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $4,347.30 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $5,241.03 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $5,737.55 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $5,803.75 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $5,958.23 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $6,311.31 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6,385.23 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $6,432.68 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6,620.25 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $7,282.28 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $8,937.34 | ↑ +62% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $9,930.38 | ↑ +80% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Bur rotalink 2.15mm at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $3,820.39 | not published |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $5,749.25 | $2,019.14 – $4,628.40 |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | $5,992.18 | $3,572.71 – $9,970.84 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $5,992.18 | $3,819.11 – $8,754.40 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $3,820.39 | not published |