Biopsy thigh soft tissues 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

$3,550.00

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.

$7,100.00

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.

$2,797.40 with Advocate Employee vs $8,003.00 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 $2,797.40 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $3,692.00 ↑ +4%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $3,692.00 ↑ +4%
Cigna Commercial $3,976.00 ↑ +12%
Aetna Commercial $4,108.77 ↑ +16%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $4,326.01 ↑ +22%
Molina Medicare Advantage $4,326.01 ↑ +22%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $4,475.19 ↑ +26%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $4,586.60 ↑ +29%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $4,955.80 ↑ +40%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $5,161.70 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $5,218.50 ↑ +47%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $5,268.20 ↑ +48%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $5,658.00 ↑ +59%
Multiplan Commercial $5,680.00 ↑ +60%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $5,728.24 ↑ +61%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $6,514.00 ↑ +83%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $6,874.00 ↑ +94%
United Healthcare HMO $8,003.00 ↑ +125%

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Biopsy thigh soft tissues at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $1,974.40 $371.84 – $2,226.56
Advocate South Suburban Hospital Hazel Crest $2,065.00 $1,627.22 – $12,362.00
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $1,795.34 – $4,475.19
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $1,165.96 – $4,862.25
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $430.00 – $5,042.65
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $4,326.01 – $12,362.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $4,326.01 – $12,362.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange not published $430.00 – $5,042.65

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