Rmvl icd pulse gen only 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

$1,870.00

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.

$3,740.00

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.

$1,473.56 with Advocate Employee vs $17,439.00 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
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,473.56 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,944.80 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $2,017.73 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $2,068.22 ↑ +11%
Cigna Commercial $2,094.40 ↑ +12%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $2,105.62 ↑ +13%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $2,378.64 ↑ +27%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $2,505.80 ↑ +34%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $2,569.38 ↑ +37%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $2,707.76 ↑ +45%
Multiplan Commercial $2,992.00 ↑ +60%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $5,500.83 ↑ +194%
Molina Medicare Advantage $5,500.83 ↑ +194%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $5,690.52 ↑ +204%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $7,283.86 ↑ +290%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $8,821.00 ↑ +372%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $10,219.00 ↑ +446%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $15,068.00 ↑ +706%
United Healthcare HMO $17,439.00 ↑ +833%

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Rmvl icd pulse gen only at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $4,276.80 $661.48 – $5,690.52
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $431.40 $2,970.16 – $2,970.16
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $1,750.00 $3,920.50 – $6,487.44
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,675.00 $2,107.90 – $9,476.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $3,675.00 $2,895.90 – $17,439.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $6,791.09 $187.38 – $3,743.59
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $1,750.00 $3,920.50 – $6,487.44
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $14,539.80 not published

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