Fetal non stress test 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

$450.00

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.

$900.00

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.

$304.07 with Ambetter vs $738.90 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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $304.07 ↓ -32%
Molina Medicare Advantage $304.07 ↓ -32%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $314.10 ↓ -30%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $314.56 ↓ -30%
Advocate Employee Commercial $354.60 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $363.60 ↓ -19%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $402.63 ↓ -11%
Cigna One Health Commercial $468.00 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $485.55 ↑ +8%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $536.40 ↑ +19%
Cigna Commercial $594.00 ↑ +32%
United Healthcare HMO $621.00 ↑ +38%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $649.80 ↑ +44%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $654.30 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $665.10 ↑ +48%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $702.00 ↑ +56%
Multiplan Commercial $720.00 ↑ +60%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $720.00 ↑ +60%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $738.90 ↑ +64%

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Fetal non stress test at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis $376.20 $111.32 – $567.99
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo $376.20 $102.00 – $294.69
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $118.75 $212.10 – $350.97
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $450.00 $304.07 – $720.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $450.00 $304.07 – $720.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $450.00 $304.07 – $720.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $324.12 $17.87 – $178.67
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $118.75 $212.10 – $350.97

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