Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction each additional hour at Advocate Sherman Hospital
1425 North Randall Road, Elgin, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1629026364
$90.00
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.
$180.00
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.
$44.73 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $183.00 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $44.73 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $48.33 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $50.88 | ↓ -43% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $70.92 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $93.60 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $102.96 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $104.17 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $104.94 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $118.80 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $145.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $145.80 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $159.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $162.00 | ↑ +80% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $164.00 | ↑ +82% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $183.00 | ↑ +103% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction each additional hour at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $31.25 | not published |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $90.00 | $70.92 – $276.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $90.00 | $58.55 – $201.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $90.00 | $70.92 – $276.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $185.36 | $14.91 – $102.18 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $31.25 | not published |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $166.10 | not published |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $90.00 | $70.92 – $276.00 |