Fna bx w/ct gdn 1st les 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

$1,930.00

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.

$3,860.00

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.

$1,063.48 with Ambetter vs $6,071.00 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 $1,063.48 ↓ -45%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,063.48 ↓ -45%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,100.15 ↓ -43%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,408.20 ↓ -27%
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,520.84 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $2,007.20 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $2,082.47 ↑ +8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $2,084.40 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $2,435.66 ↑ +26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $2,485.84 ↑ +29%
Cigna Commercial $2,547.60 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $2,786.92 ↑ +44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $3,010.80 ↑ +56%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,070.00 ↑ +59%
Multiplan Commercial $3,088.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $3,172.92 ↑ +64%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,558.00 ↑ +84%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,246.00 ↑ +172%
United Healthcare HMO $6,071.00 ↑ +215%

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Fna bx w/ct gdn 1st les at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1,641.60 $660.37 – $2,573.12
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $225.00 $742.91 – $1,229.33
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $1,860.00 $1,063.48 – $6,071.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,035.00 $1,063.48 – $4,681.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $1,050.00 $827.40 – $6,071.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $1,293.12 $97.91 – $712.83
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $225.00 $742.91 – $1,229.33
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $1,112.10 $758.85 – $796.79

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