Functional brain mapping at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$3,370.00
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.
$6,740.00
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.
$990.49 with Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago vs $5,392.00 with Multiplan — 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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| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $990.49 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,070.22 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,126.93 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $2,352.26 | ↓ -30% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $2,655.56 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $2,722.96 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $3,504.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,636.23 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $4,017.04 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,448.40 | ↑ +32% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $4,650.60 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $4,899.98 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $4,980.86 | ↑ +48% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $5,392.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $5,392.00 | ↑ +60% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | not published by hospital | — |
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Functional brain mapping at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $3,370.00 | $999.53 – $5,392.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $682.40 | $90.14 – $379.08 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $604.29 – $604.29 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $349.00 – $1,636.56 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | not published | $976.51 – $1,111.32 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $616.06 – $700.81 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | not published | $1,006.10 – $1,145.02 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | not published | $470.58 – $535.26 |