Device ablt adv novasure at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$5,839.33
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.
$11,678.65
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.
$1,508.03 with United Healthcare Charter vs $3,547.54 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 Charter | Commercial | $1,508.03 | ↓ -74% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,702.47 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $1,745.68 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $2,246.92 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,331.18 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $2,575.32 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,851.86 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,981.49 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $3,119.76 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $3,141.37 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $3,193.22 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $3,370.38 | ↓ -42% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $3,456.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $3,456.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $3,547.54 | ↓ -39% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $2,287.80 | $1,220.16 – $3,507.96 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $2,287.80 | $1,715.85 – $1,792.11 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $18,189.00 | $2,012.44 – $4,613.04 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $3,471.70 | $2,735.70 – $5,554.72 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $5,860.89 | $307.92 – $705.84 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $4,452.25 | not published |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $5,839.33 | $2,714.31 – $6,330.80 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $2,912.95 | $1,782.73 – $5,243.31 |