Echo transthoracic at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$765.00
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.
$1,530.00
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.
$524.02 with Advocate Employee vs $1,097.39 with HSTechnology — 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 | $524.02 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $533.97 | ↓ -30% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $618.12 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $691.60 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $717.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $828.76 | ↑ +8% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $828.76 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $855.42 | ↑ +12% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $857.34 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $877.80 | ↑ +15% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $911.88 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $924.28 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $966.91 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $973.26 | ↑ +27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $982.87 | ↑ +28% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,055.70 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,064.00 | ↑ +39% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,064.00 | ↑ +39% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,097.39 | ↑ +43% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $325.00 | $573.25 – $948.59 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $765.00 | $524.02 – $1,097.39 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $765.00 | $524.02 – $1,097.39 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $795.00 | $524.02 – $1,097.39 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $454.17 | $32.53 – $426.56 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $325.00 | $573.25 – $948.59 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $711.15 | $585.55 – $614.83 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $665.00 | $524.02 – $1,877.00 |