Evaluation of speech fluency 92521 at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge

1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$317.50

Cash price

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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.

$635.00

Gross charge

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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.

$21.67 with Advocate Employee vs $1,047.77 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Advocate Employee Commercial $21.67 ↓ -93%
Cigna One Health Commercial $28.60 ↓ -91%
Aetna Commercial $29.67 ↓ -91%
Cigna Commercial $36.30 ↓ -89%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $40.43 ↓ -87%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $41.09 ↓ -87%
Multiplan Commercial $44.00 ↓ -86%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $44.00 ↓ -86%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $194.50 ↓ -39%
Molina Medicare Advantage $194.50 ↓ -39%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $201.20 ↓ -37%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $238.00 ↓ -25%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $257.54 ↓ -19%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $274.00 ↓ -14%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $405.00 ↑ +28%
United Healthcare HMO $469.00 ↑ +48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $920.91 ↑ +190%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $995.04 ↑ +213%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,047.77 ↑ +230%

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Evaluation of speech fluency 92521 at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $225.60 $44.80 – $301.15
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $225.60 $63.00 – $65.80
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $95.00 $131.70 – $217.92
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $350.00 $11.82 – $981.28
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $257.50 $65.01 – $619.32
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $350.00 $33.49 – $1,004.98
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $285.31 $118.74 – $190.70
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $95.00 $131.70 – $217.92

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