Artery x-rays lung 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

$2,390.00

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.

$4,780.00

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.

$220.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $6,299.55 with HSTechnology — 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
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $220.00 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $293.00 ↓ -88%
Cigna One Health Commercial $318.38 ↓ -87%
Cigna Commercial $318.38 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $549.00 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare HMO $634.00 ↓ -73%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,593.90 ↓ -33%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,722.70 ↓ -28%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,813.94 ↓ -24%
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,883.32 ↓ -21%
Aetna Commercial $1,951.35 ↓ -18%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $3,202.60 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $3,374.68 ↑ +41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $3,441.60 ↑ +44%
Multiplan Commercial $3,824.00 ↑ +60%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $4,757.47 ↑ +99%
Molina Medicare Advantage $4,757.47 ↑ +99%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $4,921.53 ↑ +106%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $6,299.55 ↑ +164%

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Artery x-rays lung at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1,657.80 $884.16 – $2,541.96
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $1,537.50 $138.08 – $5,481.46
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,390.00 $195.00 – $6,299.55
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $2,390.00 $220.00 – $6,299.55
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $1,280.00 $54.78 – $2,448.63
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $1,537.50 $138.08 – $5,481.46
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $5,000.05 $3,383.62 – $3,552.80
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $2,390.00 $220.00 – $6,299.55

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