Controler lvad heartmate 3 includes ebb 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

$13,477.75

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.

$26,955.50

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.

$5,305.02 with Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision vs $33,680.47 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
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $5,305.02 ↓ -61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $5,326.08 ↓ -60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $5,410.28 ↓ -60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $5,768.16 ↓ -57%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $6,062.88 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $7,347.04 ↓ -45%
Advocate Employee Commercial $8,294.36 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $8,504.88 ↓ -37%
Cigna One Health Commercial $10,525.84 ↓ -22%
Cigna Commercial $10,946.87 ↓ -19%
Aetna Commercial $11,151.07 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $12,546.80 ↓ -7%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $14,104.63 ↑ +5%
United Healthcare HMO $14,525.66 ↑ +8%
Multiplan Commercial $16,841.34 ↑ +25%
Molina Medicare Advantage $25,435.77 ↑ +89%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $25,435.77 ↑ +89%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $26,312.87 ↑ +95%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $33,680.47 ↑ +150%

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Controler lvad heartmate 3 includes ebb at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Peoria $14,185.20 $12,701.45 – $18,250.60
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest $2,823.49 not published
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry $21,483.97 not published
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville not published $25,435.77 – $38,176.27
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $25,435.77 – $61,972.03
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island not published $8,708.46 – $28,067.06
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago not published $25,435.77 – $62,375.03
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge Park Ridge not published $25,435.77 – $61,389.93

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