Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution 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

$37.62

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.

$75.23

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.

$10.97 with Ambetter vs $45.70 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.

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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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $10.97 ↓ -71%
Molina Medicare Advantage $10.97 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $11.25 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $11.25 ↓ -70%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $11.35 ↓ -70%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $14.53 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial $15.24 ↓ -59%
Cigna One Health Commercial $15.24 ↓ -59%
Advocate Employee Commercial $22.31 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $23.05 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare HMO $23.05 ↓ -39%
Aetna Commercial $30.55 ↓ -19%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $37.94 ↑ +1%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $39.98 ↑ +6%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $40.15 ↑ +7%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $40.77 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $43.44 ↑ +15%
Multiplan Commercial $45.30 ↑ +20%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $45.70 ↑ +21%

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Epoetin alfa-epbx 40,000 unit/ml injection solution at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $793.87 $7.89 – $74.66
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $793.87 $7.57 – $40.34
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $443.41 $7.69 – $12.72
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $48.06 $10.97 – $44.75
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $32.69 $10.97 – $44.86
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $52.67 $2.99 – $28.63
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $265.97 $7.69 – $12.72
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $32.55 $10.97 – $45.51

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