Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic each addl sequential IV push new substance/drug 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

$167.50

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.

$335.00

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.

$69.74 with Molina vs $1,270.00 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.

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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
Molina Medicare Advantage $69.74 ↓ -58%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $69.74 ↓ -58%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $72.15 ↓ -57%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $92.35 ↓ -45%
Advocate Employee Commercial $131.99 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $174.20 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $180.73 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $214.78 ↑ +28%
Cigna Commercial $221.10 ↑ +32%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $224.45 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $232.13 ↑ +39%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $236.51 ↑ +41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $241.20 ↑ +44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $244.43 ↑ +46%
Multiplan Commercial $268.00 ↑ +60%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $642.00 ↑ +283%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $744.00 ↑ +344%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $1,098.00 ↑ +556%
United Healthcare HMO $1,270.00 ↑ +658%

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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic each addl sequential IV push new substance/drug at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $68.40 $32.64 – $359.12
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $68.40 $44.79 – $53.58
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $76.25 not published
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $255.00 $69.74 – $883.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $240.00 $69.74 – $1,270.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $92.20 $13.13 – $50.82
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $76.25 $49.13 – $81.29
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $204.05 $50.18 – $52.69

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