Blood smear interpretation at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
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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.
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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.
$25.26 with United Healthcare Nexus vs $139.70 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 Nexus | Commercial | $25.26 | — |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $25.26 | — |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $25.26 | — |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $25.26 | — |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $65.11 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $65.11 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | $93.87 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $122.79 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $132.67 | — |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $139.70 | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Blood smear interpretation at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $52.20 | $13.11 – $16.92 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $31.25 | $20.98 – $29.56 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $46.40 | $14.34 – $44.09 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $31.25 | $20.15 – $29.56 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $75.35 | not published |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $75.35 | not published |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook | Bolingbrook | $31.25 | $20.15 – $29.56 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Glenoaks | Glendale Heights | $31.25 | $19.49 – $29.56 |