MRI breast without cont bi 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

$2,425.00

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.

$4,850.00

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.

$365.36 with Ambetter vs $3,880.00 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.

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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 $365.36 ↓ -85%
Molina Medicare Advantage $365.36 ↓ -85%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $377.96 ↓ -84%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $483.79 ↓ -80%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $870.25 ↓ -64%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $940.57 ↓ -61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $990.38 ↓ -59%
Cigna Commercial $1,096.00 ↓ -55%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,096.00 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $1,276.00 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $1,276.00 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare HMO $1,276.00 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $1,276.00 ↓ -47%
Aetna Commercial $1,613.00 ↓ -33%
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,910.90 ↓ -21%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $3,249.50 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $3,424.10 ↑ +41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $3,492.00 ↑ +44%
Multiplan Commercial $3,880.00 ↑ +60%

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MRI breast without cont bi at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $1,151.40 $235.87 – $3,022.00
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $1,151.40 $268.49 – $901.93
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $900.00 $250.32 – $414.22
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,425.00 $365.36 – $3,880.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $2,425.00 $365.36 – $3,880.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $779.20 $69.92 – $236.86
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $900.00 $250.32 – $414.22
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $2,104.85 $255.69 – $268.47

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