Card MRI veloc flow mapping at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$150.00
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.
$300.00
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.
$118.20 with Advocate Employee vs $1,613.00 with Aetna — 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 | $118.20 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $216.60 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $218.10 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $221.70 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $234.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $240.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $240.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $246.30 | ↑ +64% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,096.00 | ↑ +631% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,096.00 | ↑ +631% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $1,276.00 | ↑ +751% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $1,276.00 | ↑ +751% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $1,276.00 | ↑ +751% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,276.00 | ↑ +751% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,613.00 | ↑ +975% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Card MRI veloc flow mapping at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $782.40 | $235.87 – $3,022.00 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $150.00 | $118.20 – $1,613.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $150.00 | $118.20 – $1,613.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $132.80 | $10.89 – $86.76 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $150.00 | $118.20 – $1,613.00 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $150.00 | $91.80 – $1,613.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $80.85 | $38.62 – $486.00 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $202.00 – $638.79 |