Paclitaxel 6 mg/ml concentrate,intravenous at Advocate Christ Medical Center
4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1548375082
$2.02
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.
$4.04
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.
$0.15 with United Healthcare Charter vs $2.56 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.
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 | $0.15 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $0.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $0.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $0.20 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $0.30 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $0.30 | ↓ -85% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1.25 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2.12 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $2.24 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $2.25 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $2.28 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2.43 | ↑ +20% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2.54 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2.56 | ↑ +27% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Paclitaxel 6 mg/ml concentrate,intravenous at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $938.32 | $30.87 – $83.94 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $938.32 | $43.42 – $45.35 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $18.30 | $0.19 – $0.19 |
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago | $463.22 | not published |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $18.30 | $0.19 – $0.19 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $293.12 | $0.22 – $0.22 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook | Bolingbrook | $18.30 | $0.19 – $0.70 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Glenoaks | Glendale Heights | $18.30 | $0.19 – $0.19 |