Ultrasound joint complete left 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

$540.00

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.

$1,080.00

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.

$50.56 with Cigna vs $867.00 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
Cigna Commercial $50.56 ↓ -91%
Cigna One Health Commercial $50.56 ↓ -91%
Molina Medicare Advantage $160.73 ↓ -70%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $160.73 ↓ -70%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $166.28 ↓ -69%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $212.83 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $235.00 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $269.00 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $285.00 ↓ -47%
Advocate Employee Commercial $425.52 ↓ -21%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $430.21 ↓ -20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $465.17 ↓ -14%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $489.40 ↓ -9%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $561.60 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $625.00 ↑ +16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $785.16 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $801.36 ↑ +48%
Multiplan Commercial $864.00 ↑ +60%
United Healthcare HMO $867.00 ↑ +61%

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Ultrasound joint complete left at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $238.80 $107.26 – $366.16
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $238.80 $120.46 – $187.06
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $250.00 $109.68 – $181.49
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $675.00 $50.56 – $864.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $675.00 $50.56 – $864.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $321.21 $9.30 – $177.07
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $250.00 $109.68 – $181.49
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $849.20 $112.03 – $117.63

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