Transcath closure of vsd 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

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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.

$5,167.70 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $39,558.00 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
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $5,167.70
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $5,587.60
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $5,878.62
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $27,141.74
Molina Medicare Advantage $27,141.74
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $27,968.00
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $28,077.67
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $32,200.00
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $33,981.00
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $35,939.41
United Healthcare HMO $39,558.00

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Transcath closure of vsd at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $9,790.00 $7,714.52 – $91,059.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $2,861.60 $1,131.45 – $13,969.63
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $14,350.91 – $28,077.67
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $2,886.00 – $38,865.97
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $6,448.00 – $31,824.13
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $8,384.45 – $91,059.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange not published $6,448.00 – $31,824.13
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon not published $19,644.52 – $20,626.75

All Illinois hospitals for this procedure →