Biopsy skin incisional single lesion 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

$690.00

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.

$1,380.00

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.

$543.72 with Advocate Employee 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
Advocate Employee Commercial $543.72 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $717.60 ↑ +4%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $717.60 ↑ +4%
Cigna Commercial $772.80 ↑ +12%
Aetna Commercial $798.61 ↑ +16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $891.48 ↑ +29%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $925.24 ↑ +34%
Molina Medicare Advantage $925.24 ↑ +34%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $957.14 ↑ +39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $963.24 ↑ +40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,003.26 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,014.30 ↑ +47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,023.96 ↑ +48%
Multiplan Commercial $1,104.00 ↑ +60%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,225.15 ↑ +78%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,310.00 ↑ +380%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,811.00 ↑ +452%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $4,021.00 ↑ +483%
United Healthcare HMO $4,681.00 ↑ +578%

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Biopsy skin incisional single lesion at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $246.00 $377.20 – $424.56
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $246.00 $1,149.82 – $2,970.16
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $325.00 $775.37 – $1,283.05
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $390.00 $307.32 – $6,071.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $382.50 $301.41 – $6,071.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $701.03 $50.83 – $476.21
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $325.00 $775.37 – $1,283.05
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $462.00 $792.00 – $831.60

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