Intracranial limited study at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$635.00
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.
$1,270.00
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.
$160.73 with Ambetter vs $1,234.05 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.
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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| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $160.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $160.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $166.28 | ↓ -74% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $212.83 | ↓ -66% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $500.38 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $511.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $593.00 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $607.07 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $607.07 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $685.17 | ↑ +8% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $873.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $923.29 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $938.53 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $1,010.00 | ↑ +59% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,016.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,016.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,084.63 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,171.94 | ↑ +85% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,234.05 | ↑ +94% |
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Intracranial limited study at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $635.00 | $160.73 – $1,155.74 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $635.00 | $160.73 – $1,183.64 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $353.60 | $32.77 – $104.20 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $350.35 | $112.03 – $117.63 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $635.00 | $160.73 – $1,190.85 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $350.35 | $112.03 – $117.63 |
| Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network) | Chicago | $119.46 | $110.85 – $646.60 |
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | not published | $107.26 – $166.28 |