Intro long gi tube at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$1,120.00
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.
$2,240.00
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.
$882.56 with Advocate Employee vs $6,181.00 with United Healthcare — 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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| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $882.56 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $1,164.80 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,208.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $1,276.80 | ↑ +14% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $1,301.44 | ↑ +16% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $1,417.13 | ↑ +27% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $1,417.13 | ↑ +27% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $1,462.72 | ↑ +31% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $1,466.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,478.40 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $1,581.44 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $1,664.32 | ↑ +49% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $1,792.00 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $1,792.00 | ↑ +60% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $1,876.48 | ↑ +68% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $3,126.00 | ↑ +179% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $3,622.00 | ↑ +223% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $5,340.00 | ↑ +377% |
| United Healthcare | HMO | $6,181.00 | ↑ +452% |
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Intro long gi tube at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $688.80 | $353.05 – $3,343.15 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $1,120.00 | $882.56 – $6,181.00 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $1,245.00 | $981.06 – $4,636.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $1,245.00 | $981.06 – $6,181.00 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $392.06 | $17.34 – $729.38 |
| SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mount Vernon | $1,298.55 | $971.94 – $1,020.54 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $1,120.00 | $882.56 – $6,181.00 |
| SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia | Centralia | $1,298.55 | $971.94 – $1,020.54 |