Echo transthoracic at Advocate Sherman Hospital
1425 North Randall Road, Elgin, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1629026364
$1,175.00
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.
$2,350.00
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.
$659.21 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $1,683.00 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 | $659.21 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $712.32 | ↓ -39% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $736.78 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $749.81 | ↓ -36% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $828.76 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $828.76 | ↓ -29% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $857.34 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $972.40 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,069.64 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,082.17 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,090.21 | ↓ -7% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,097.39 | ↓ -7% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $1,116.25 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,234.20 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $1,236.10 | ↑ +5% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $1,269.00 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,410.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,514.70 | ↑ +29% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,683.00 | ↑ +43% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $375.00 | $573.25 – $948.59 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $1,175.00 | $736.78 – $1,621.50 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $1,175.00 | $736.78 – $1,496.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $1,225.00 | $736.78 – $1,621.50 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $865.63 | $56.23 – $477.18 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $375.00 | $573.25 – $948.59 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $1,018.60 | $585.55 – $614.83 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $1,225.00 | $736.78 – $1,621.50 |