Unlisted px small intestine 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

$1,195.00

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$2,390.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$941.66 with Advocate Employee vs $6,181.00 with United Healthcare — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Advocate Employee Commercial $941.66 ↓ -21%
Cigna One Health Commercial $1,242.80 ↑ +4%
Aetna Commercial $1,289.41 ↑ +8%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision Managed Care $1,362.30 ↑ +14%
Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO $1,388.59 ↑ +16%
Molina Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↑ +19%
Ambetter Medicare Advantage $1,417.13 ↑ +19%
Oscar Health HMO Medicare Advantage $1,466.00 ↑ +23%
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago Commercial $1,560.67 ↑ +31%
Cigna Commercial $1,577.40 ↑ +32%
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice Commercial $1,687.34 ↑ +41%
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO $1,775.77 ↑ +49%
HSTechnology Medicare Advantage $1,876.48 ↑ +57%
Private Healthcare Systems Commercial $1,912.00 ↑ +60%
Multiplan Commercial $1,912.00 ↑ +60%
United Healthcare Charter Commercial $3,126.00 ↑ +162%
United Healthcare Nexus Commercial $3,622.00 ↑ +203%
United Healthcare Core Navigate Commercial $5,340.00 ↑ +347%
United Healthcare HMO $6,181.00 ↑ +417%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Unlisted px small intestine at other Illinois hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn $895.00 $705.26 – $6,181.00
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Moline Rock Island $6,943.45 $729.38 – $8,778.00
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon Mount Vernon $4,777.30 $971.94 – $1,020.54
Advocate Sherman Hospital Elgin $1,570.00 $1,164.94 – $4,256.00
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia Centralia $4,777.30 $971.94 – $1,020.54
MercyOne Genesis Silvis Medical Center Silvis not published $977.33 – $1,466.00
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo not published $937.56 – $5,479.50
Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth Hinsdale Hinsdale not published $951.53 – $1,574.55

All Illinois hospitals for this procedure →