Pt wheelchair management each 15 minutes 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

$85.00

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.

$170.00

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.

$45.69 with Ambetter vs $469.00 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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $45.69 ↓ -46%
Molina Medicare Advantage $45.69 ↓ -46%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $47.26 ↓ -44%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $60.50 ↓ -29%
Advocate Employee Commercial $66.98 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $88.40 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $109.39 ↑ +29%
Cigna Commercial $112.20 ↑ +32%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $113.90 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $120.02 ↑ +41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $122.40 ↑ +44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $133.16 ↑ +57%
Multiplan Commercial $136.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $143.92 ↑ +69%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $151.55 ↑ +78%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $238.00 ↑ +180%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $274.00 ↑ +222%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $405.00 ↑ +376%
United Healthcare HMO $469.00 ↑ +452%

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Pt wheelchair management each 15 minutes at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $54.60 $29.12 – $278.27
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $54.60 $40.95 – $42.77
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $32.50 $31.01 – $51.32
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $85.00 $45.69 – $295.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $85.00 $45.69 – $469.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $80.55 $27.77 – $48.87
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $32.50 $31.01 – $51.32
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $97.35 $31.68 – $33.26

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