Electrode stimulation brain at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$1,830.00
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.
$3,660.00
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.
$725.00 with United Healthcare Charter vs $2,928.00 with Private Healthcare Systems — 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 | $725.00 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $840.00 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $1,239.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,358.84 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,434.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $1,442.04 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,468.23 | ↓ -20% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,537.79 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,537.79 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,546.04 | ↓ -16% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,590.82 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,903.20 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,974.57 | ↑ +8% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $2,036.25 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,415.60 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $2,660.82 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $2,704.74 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $2,928.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $2,928.00 | ↑ +60% |
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Electrode stimulation brain at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $672.80 | $144.06 – $791.49 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $578.16 | $547.80 – $810.08 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $366.45 – $1,590.82 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $470.88 – $1,145.61 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $900.92 – $1,490.79 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | not published | $1,339.67 – $2,036.25 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $845.17 – $2,036.25 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | not published | $1,371.25 – $2,036.25 |