Abd paracentesis/w/o image guide 49082 at Advocate Christ Medical Center

4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$890.00

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.

$1,780.00

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.

$701.32 with Advocate Employee vs $6,181.00 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 $701.32 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $925.60 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $960.31 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $984.34 ↑ +11%
Cigna Commercial $996.80 ↑ +12%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,002.14 ↑ +13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,132.08 ↑ +27%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $1,192.60 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,222.86 ↑ +37%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,288.72 ↑ +45%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↑ +59%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↑ +59%
Multiplan Commercial $1,424.00 ↑ +60%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,466.00 ↑ +65%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,876.48 ↑ +111%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,126.00 ↑ +251%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,622.00 ↑ +307%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,340.00 ↑ +500%
United Healthcare HMO $6,181.00 ↑ +594%

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Abd paracentesis/w/o image guide 49082 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $931.20 $130.64 – $1,466.00
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $931.20 $207.00 – $993.24
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $575.00 $430.00 – $1,574.55
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $750.00 $591.00 – $6,181.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $832.63 $65.22 – $729.38
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $575.00 $430.00 – $1,574.55
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $1,847.45 $971.94 – $1,020.54
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $900.00 $709.20 – $6,181.00

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