Contrast x-ray of hip at Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082
$1,100.00
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.
$2,200.00
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.
$220.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $1,416.00 with Multiplan — 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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| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $220.00 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $293.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $379.02 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $452.35 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $452.35 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $532.64 | ↓ -52% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $539.81 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $539.81 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $549.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $558.42 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $575.68 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $606.17 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $634.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $697.38 | ↓ -37% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $714.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,185.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,249.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,274.40 | ↑ +16% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,416.00 | ↑ +29% |
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Contrast x-ray of hip at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $412.20 | $114.38 – $521.19 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $231.25 | $113.57 – $605.65 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $1,100.00 | $195.00 – $1,416.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $885.00 | $220.00 – $1,416.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $502.69 | $25.44 – $277.83 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $231.25 | $113.57 – $605.65 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $1,327.15 | $373.86 – $392.55 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $1,100.00 | $220.00 – $1,416.00 |