Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at Advocate South Suburban Hospital

17800 South Kedzie Avenue, Hazel Crest, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1467560128

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$72.50

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.

$145.00

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.

$45.03 with Ambetter vs $429.00 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.

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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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $45.03 ↓ -38%
Molina Medicare Advantage $45.03 ↓ -38%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $46.58 ↓ -36%
Advocate Employee Commercial $57.13 ↓ -21%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $59.62 ↓ -18%
Cigna One Health Commercial $75.40 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $78.23 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $78.30 ↑ +8%
Cigna Commercial $95.70 ↑ +32%
Multiplan Commercial $116.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $136.86 ↑ +89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $141.23 ↑ +95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $141.23 ↑ +95%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $147.96 ↑ +104%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $155.69 ↑ +115%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $217.00 ↑ +199%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $252.00 ↑ +248%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $370.00 ↑ +410%
United Healthcare HMO $429.00 ↑ +492%

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Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $27.00 $14.40 – $46.58
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $27.00 $20.70 – $31.44
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $30.00 not published
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $72.50 $45.03 – $429.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $76.67 $22.67 – $49.34
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $30.00 not published
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $53.35 not published
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia Centralia $53.35 not published

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