Place cecostomy tube perc at Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge

1775 Dempster Street, Park Ridge, IL · Advocate Health · · NPI 1508315516

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$1,665.00

Cash price

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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.

$3,330.00

Gross charge

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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.

$1,312.02 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,312.02 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,731.60 ↑ +4%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,782.19 ↑ +7%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,782.19 ↑ +7%
Aetna Commercial $1,796.54 ↑ +8%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,843.64 ↑ +11%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,898.10 ↑ +14%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,934.73 ↑ +16%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $2,174.49 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial $2,197.80 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $2,350.98 ↑ +41%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $2,359.87 ↑ +42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $2,474.19 ↑ +49%
Multiplan Commercial $2,664.00 ↑ +60%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $2,664.00 ↑ +60%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,126.00 ↑ +88%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,622.00 ↑ +118%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,340.00 ↑ +221%
United Healthcare HMO $6,181.00 ↑ +271%

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Place cecostomy tube perc at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $2,180.00 $1,717.84 – $4,636.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $2,170.40 $186.57 – $1,081.50
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $1,229.10 – $1,843.64
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $522.00 – $6,129.95
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $926.00 – $2,077.40
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn not published $1,782.19 – $6,181.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove not published $1,782.19 – $6,181.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange not published $926.00 – $2,077.40

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