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Analyze neurostimulator simple w/reprogramming 95971 at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge

1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$475.00

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.

$950.00

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.

$138.74 with Molina vs $760.00 with Private Healthcare Systems — 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 $138.74 ↓ -71%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $138.74 ↓ -71%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $143.53 ↓ -70%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $183.71 ↓ -61%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $319.25 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $331.55 ↓ -30%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $344.95 ↓ -27%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $363.23 ↓ -24%
Advocate Employee Commercial $374.30 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $383.80 ↓ -19%
Cigna One Health Commercial $494.00 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $512.53 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $566.20 ↑ +19%
Cigna Commercial $627.00 ↑ +32%
United Healthcare HMO $655.50 ↑ +38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $690.65 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $702.05 ↑ +48%
Multiplan Commercial $760.00 ↑ +60%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $760.00 ↑ +60%

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Analyze neurostimulator simple w/reprogramming 95971 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $250.80 $95.68 – $567.99
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $250.80 $88.00 – $196.46
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $475.00 $138.74 – $760.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $328.99 $35.27 – $181.35
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $475.00 $138.74 – $760.00
Advocate Sherman Hospital Elgin $475.00 $138.74 – $855.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville not published $138.74 – $225.87
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $138.74 – $366.68

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