Infuse radioactive materials at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$1,085.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,170.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$322.78 with Aetna vs $2,429.00 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Commercial | $322.78 | ↓ -70% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $397.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $397.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $411.20 | ↓ -62% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $526.34 | ↓ -51% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $854.98 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $1,039.00 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,128.40 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $1,225.00 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,432.20 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,577.59 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,603.63 | ↑ +48% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,736.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,736.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,858.18 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $2,007.76 | ↑ +85% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $2,098.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $2,114.16 | ↑ +95% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $2,429.00 | ↑ +124% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Infuse radioactive materials at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $744.00 | $118.13 – $289.44 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $1,085.00 | $322.78 – $2,429.00 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $373.89 | $148.16 – $1,234.69 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $176.38 – $411.20 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | not published | $262.98 – $477.67 |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale | Hinsdale | not published | $180.30 – $669.58 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | not published | $322.78 – $2,084.87 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | not published | $322.78 – $1,314.72 |