Generator emblem MRI sicd subq at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$29,000.00
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.
$58,000.00
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.
$9,614.95 with United Healthcare Charter vs $22,040.00 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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| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $9,614.95 | ↓ -67% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $10,854.70 | ↓ -63% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $11,130.20 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $11,901.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $11,984.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $12,177.10 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $12,865.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $13,527.05 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $13,775.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14,326.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $14,593.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $16,419.80 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $19,009.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $22,040.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $22,040.00 | ↓ -24% |
| 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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Generator emblem MRI sicd subq at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | $15,964.57 | not published |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange | La Grange | $15,964.57 | not published |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $34,429.68 | not published |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $18,905.00 | $8,411.21 – $29,643.04 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $24,210.00 | $8,049.83 – $22,999.50 |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | $21,107.64 | $13,213.38 – $33,772.22 |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital | Chicago | $23,584.25 | $16,461.81 – $37,734.80 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $34,429.68 | not published |