CT hrt c+ strux cgen hrt ds at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$1,615.00
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.
$3,230.00
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.
$539.81 with Ambetter vs $2,651.83 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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| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $539.81 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $539.81 | ↓ -67% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $558.42 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $653.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $653.00 | ↓ -60% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $714.78 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $718.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $718.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $718.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $718.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $941.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,272.62 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $2,332.06 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $2,348.21 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $2,386.97 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,519.40 | ↑ +56% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2,584.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,584.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,651.83 | ↑ +64% |
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CT hrt c+ strux cgen hrt ds at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $1,615.00 | $539.81 – $2,584.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $1,615.00 | $539.81 – $2,584.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $720.80 | $111.28 – $349.94 |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | $1,615.00 | $539.81 – $3,146.02 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $609.84 | $178.55 – $603.09 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $315.57 – $558.42 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $201.32 – $854.63 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $305.90 – $605.65 |