Implant neuroelectrodes at Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082
$5,225.00
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.
$10,450.00
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.
$4,117.30 with Advocate Employee vs $25,111.00 with United Healthcare — 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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| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $4,117.30 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $5,434.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $5,637.78 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $5,778.85 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,852.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $5,883.35 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $6,646.20 | ↑ +27% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $7,001.50 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $7,179.15 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $7,565.80 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $8,360.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $9,919.88 | ↑ +90% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $9,919.88 | ↑ +90% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $10,261.95 | ↑ +96% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $12,700.00 | ↑ +143% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $13,135.29 | ↑ +151% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $14,716.00 | ↑ +182% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $21,695.00 | ↑ +315% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $25,111.00 | ↑ +381% |
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Implant neuroelectrodes at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $4,554.40 | $287.09 – $5,105.68 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $10,323.50 | not published |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $10,323.50 | $6,829.42 – $7,170.89 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $6,134.17 – $10,261.95 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $309.00 – $16,612.91 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $2,414.00 – $11,063.66 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $9,919.88 – $16,667.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | not published | $9,919.88 – $25,111.00 |