Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082
$457.50
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.
$915.00
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.
$238.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $959.77 with Blue Cross Blue Shield — 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 | $238.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $274.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $288.31 | ↓ -37% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $288.31 | ↓ -37% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $298.25 | ↓ -35% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $360.51 | ↓ -21% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $381.76 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $405.00 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $469.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $475.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $493.64 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $603.90 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $613.05 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $645.99 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $658.80 | ↑ +44% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $732.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $843.35 | ↑ +84% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $911.50 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $959.77 | ↑ +110% |
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Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $53.75 | $52.95 – $87.63 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $457.50 | $238.00 – $933.51 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $432.80 | $61.31 – $169.94 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $53.75 | $52.95 – $87.63 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $401.50 | $54.09 – $56.79 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $457.50 | $238.00 – $939.18 |
| Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge | Park Ridge | $457.50 | $238.00 – $924.28 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $401.50 | $54.09 – $56.79 |