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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516
$72.50
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.
$145.00
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.
$8.46 with United Healthcare vs $161.45 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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| United Healthcare | HMO | $8.46 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Charter | Commercial | $8.46 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Core Navigate | Commercial | $8.46 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Nexus | Commercial | $8.46 | ↓ -88% |
| Ambetter | Medicare Advantage | $12.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicare Advantage | $12.27 | ↓ -83% |
| Oscar Health HMO | Medicare Advantage | $12.69 | ↓ -82% |
| HSTechnology | Medicare Advantage | $16.24 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $38.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna One Health | Commercial | $38.69 | ↓ -47% |
| Advocate Employee | Commercial | $43.34 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $45.90 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision | Managed Care | $79.97 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | HMO | $81.29 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $88.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Private Healthcare Systems | Commercial | $88.00 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago | Commercial | $141.90 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice | Commercial | $153.32 | ↑ +111% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield | PPO | $161.45 | ↑ +123% |
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Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at other Illinois hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center | Silvis | $72.60 | $7.35 – $84.64 |
| MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center | Aledo | $55.20 | $9.73 – $22.56 |
| Advocate Christ Medical Center | Oak Lawn | $62.50 | $8.46 – $151.20 |
| Advocate Condell Medical Center | Libertyville | $107.50 | $8.46 – $132.00 |
| Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital | Downers Grove | $65.00 | $8.46 – $154.85 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline | Rock Island | $68.56 | $3.50 – $37.79 |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center | Chicago | $57.50 | $8.46 – $155.80 |
| Advocate Sherman Hospital | Elgin | $77.50 | $8.46 – $108.00 |