Apply hand/wrist cast 29085 at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$185.00
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.
$370.00
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.
$145.78 with Advocate Employee vs $642.64 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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| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $145.78 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $192.40 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $199.62 | ↑ +8% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $238.50 | ↑ +29% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $238.50 | ↑ +29% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $246.73 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $268.99 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $273.43 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $296.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $296.00 | ↑ +60% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $315.81 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $564.83 | ↑ +205% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $610.30 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $642.64 | ↑ +247% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $178.80 | $194.61 – $274.16 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $178.80 | $527.06 – $2,970.16 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $185.00 | $145.78 – $601.86 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $459.20 | $61.22 – $161.86 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $185.00 | $145.78 – $620.14 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $144.54 | $164.48 – $336.72 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $170.48 – $282.10 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $238.50 – $4,528.00 |