Msh6 gene dup/delete variant 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

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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.

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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.

$238.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $1,081.86 with Cigna — 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
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $238.00
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $238.00
United Healthcare HMO $238.00
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $238.00
Molina Medicare Advantage $345.10
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $345.10
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $357.00
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $456.96
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,081.86
Cigna Commercial $1,081.86

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Msh6 gene dup/delete variant at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $476.00 $3.50 – $380.80
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $432.85 $238.00 – $249.90
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia Centralia $432.85 $238.00 – $249.90
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) Chicago $313.17 $178.50 – $990.26
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $129.92 – $129.92
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $238.00 – $351.86
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $133.27 – $385.56
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $238.00 – $1,081.86

All Illinois hospitals for this procedure →