Telethx isodose plan cplx 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

$1,550.00

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.

$3,100.00

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.

$553.32 with Ambetter vs $2,480.00 with Multiplan — 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
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $553.32 ↓ -64%
Molina Medicare Advantage $553.32 ↓ -64%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $572.40 ↓ -63%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $732.67 ↓ -53%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $834.96 ↓ -46%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $902.17 ↓ -42%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $949.98 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $1,039.00 ↓ -33%
Advocate Employee Commercial $1,221.40 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $1,225.00 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,612.00 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $1,672.45 ↑ +8%
Cigna Commercial $2,046.00 ↑ +32%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $2,098.00 ↑ +35%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $2,253.70 ↑ +45%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $2,290.90 ↑ +48%
United Healthcare HMO $2,429.00 ↑ +57%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $2,480.00 ↑ +60%
Multiplan Commercial $2,480.00 ↑ +60%

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Telethx isodose plan cplx at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale $500.00 $219.87 – $650.02
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $1,640.00 $553.32 – $2,624.00
Advocate Condell Medical Center Libertyville $1,930.00 $519.31 – $3,088.00
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Downers Grove $1,655.00 $553.32 – $2,648.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $3,998.20 $121.67 – $2,204.00
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange La Grange $500.00 $219.87 – $650.02
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $1,617.00 not published
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago $2,220.00 $553.32 – $3,552.00

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