Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Advocate Condell Medical Center
801 South Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1124272547
$56.77
Cash price 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.
$113.53
Gross charge 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.
$11.40 with Ambetter vs $95.37 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $11.40 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $11.40 | ↓ -80% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $11.79 | ↓ -79% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $15.09 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $18.17 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $18.17 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $19.06 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $19.06 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $22.39 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $22.39 | ↓ -61% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $44.73 | ↓ -21% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $59.04 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $65.70 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $82.54 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $83.79 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $84.24 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $90.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $90.82 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $95.37 | ↑ +68% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $4,881.05 | not published |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $55.76 | $11.40 – $89.21 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $55.08 | $11.40 – $88.12 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $167.22 | not published |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $53.50 | $11.40 – $87.09 |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $59.18 | $11.40 – $94.68 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $60.69 | $11.40 – $109.23 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $1,522.91 | $9.42 – $9.58 |