Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at Advocate Condell Medical Center

801 South Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1124272547

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$1,370.00

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.

$2,740.00

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.

$934.51 with Ambetter vs $4,681.00 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 $934.51 ↓ -32%
Molina Medicare Advantage $934.51 ↓ -32%
Advocate Employee Commercial $957.42 ↓ -30%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $966.73 ↓ -29%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,237.41 ↓ -10%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,263.60 ↓ -8%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $1,263.60 ↓ -8%
Cigna Commercial $1,360.80 ↓ -1%
Aetna Commercial $1,406.24 ↑ +3%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,569.78 ↑ +15%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,696.14 ↑ +24%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,766.61 ↑ +29%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,786.05 ↑ +30%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,803.06 ↑ +32%
Multiplan Commercial $1,944.00 ↑ +42%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,310.00 ↑ +142%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,811.00 ↑ +178%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $4,021.00 ↑ +194%
United Healthcare HMO $4,681.00 ↑ +242%

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Aspirate pleura without imaging 32554 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1,028.40 $365.76 – $931.55
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $1,028.40 $514.35 – $537.21
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $325.00 $430.00 – $1,089.01
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $1,540.00 $807.70 – $6,071.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $2,630.00 $934.51 – $6,071.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $1,094.40 $79.10 – $484.67
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $325.00 $430.00 – $1,089.01
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $1,286.45 $672.23 – $705.84

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