Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082
$1,510.00
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.
$3,020.00
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.
$84.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $2,408.00 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 | $84.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $98.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $144.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $166.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,185.94 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,345.68 | ↓ -11% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,345.68 | ↓ -11% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,392.08 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,565.20 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,623.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,664.53 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,685.60 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,694.63 | ↑ +12% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,781.87 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,914.36 | ↑ +27% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2,016.70 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,067.87 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,179.24 | ↑ +44% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,408.00 | ↑ +59% |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $1,848.00 | $656.96 – $2,573.12 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $1,848.00 | $253.00 – $998.72 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $446.25 | $430.00 – $1,535.46 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $1,220.00 | $961.36 – $4,681.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $1,220.00 | $961.36 – $6,071.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $3,351.88 | $101.33 – $923.86 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $446.25 | $430.00 – $1,535.46 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $1,510.00 | $84.00 – $1,816.00 |