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Advocate Christ Medical Center

for Brain MRI · Oak Lawn 60453

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Which of these is yours you said: Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service)
List price
The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays.
$3,830
Cash price
What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance.
$1,915
Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service)
This hospital published no rate for Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service). Nothing else on this page substitutes for it.
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Every other insurer
22 rates across 18 insurers that are not yours. Context, not your price.
$539.81 – $3,064

Advocate Christ Medical Center publishes no Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) rate for Brain MRI. We could put one of the 22 rates below in this space, and it would be wrong: a rate is negotiated between one hospital and one insurer, so what any of those insurers pays here tells you nothing about what Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) pays.

The file does not say why it is missing — Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) may not be contracted here for this service, or the hospital may have left it out of the disclosure it is required to publish. Both are worth asking about: ask the hospital for the rate, and ask Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) whether this hospital is in your network.

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $539.81 to $3,064. That is not an error, and it is not our arithmetic — it is what the hospital published.

Two things are happening. Rates differ between insurers and plans, as you would expect — and the same plan also appears more than once at different prices. Each rate below is shown with the hospital's own line-item description, so you can read how its file labels them. The file does not say which one you would be billed under, so we show every figure rather than pick one.

Not yours

Every other insurer

These belong to other insurers. None of them is your price. They are here so you can see the whole file rather than only the part we picked.

Ambetter $539.81
Plans, line items and rates for Ambetter
Medicare Advantage MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $539.81
Molina $539.81
Plans, line items and rates for Molina
Medicare Advantage MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $539.81
Oscar Health HMO $558.42
Plans, line items and rates for Oscar Health HMO
Medicare Advantage MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $558.42
HSTechnology $714.78
Plans, line items and rates for HSTechnology
Medicare Advantage MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $714.78
Cigna $1,096
Plans, line items and rates for Cigna
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,096
Cigna One Health $1,096
Plans, line items and rates for Cigna One Health
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,096
United Healthcare Nexus $1,276
Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Nexus
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,276
United Healthcare Charter $1,276
Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Charter
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,276
United Healthcare $1,276
Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare
HMO MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,276
United Healthcare Core Navigate $1,276
Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Core Navigate
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,276
Advocate Employee $1,509.02 – $1,673.71
Plans, line items and rates for Advocate Employee
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,509.02
MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,673.71
Aetna $1,613
Plans, line items and rates for Aetna
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $1,613
Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago $2,128.90
Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,128.90
Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice $2,300.93
Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,300.93
Blue Cross Blue Shield $2,422.78 – $2,757.60
Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield
PPO MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,422.78
HMO MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,757.60
Private Healthcare Systems $2,566.10 – $3,064
Plans, line items and rates for Private Healthcare Systems
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,566.10
MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $3,064
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision $2,703.98
Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision
Managed Care MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $2,703.98
Multiplan $3,064
Plans, line items and rates for Multiplan
Commercial MR BRAIN W/WO DYE $3,064

How complete the paperwork is

What Advocate Christ Medical Center published — and what it left out

Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that Advocate Christ Medical Center actually did publish. It is a measure of their paperwork, not their care. We hold no clinical, safety, or outcome data about any hospital, and nothing here should be read as a comment on the medicine.

0.68/ 1.00

At or above our 0.50 threshold, so this hospital appears in comparisons. A passing score means the file is complete enough to compare, not that it is complete.

0.00 Publishing threshold 0.50 1.00

The four parts of Advocate Christ Medical Center's disclosure-completeness score, each with its weight, its value, and what was counted.
What we checked Weight Scored Added
How many common services carry a price Partial credit 43 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. 0.40 0.61 0.25
How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 740867 of 1320722 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. 0.25 0.56 0.14
How recently the file was updated Full credit Current: file states last_updated_on 2025-11-04 (344 days old). 0.20 1.00 0.20
How many rows are usable figures Partial credit 579607 of 1532081 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). 0.15 0.62 0.09
Total 0.68

Each part is scored from 0 to 1 and multiplied by its weight; the four add up to the total above. Every count in the right-hand column came from the hospital's own file — we did not estimate, impute, or fill a gap on their behalf. Where the file is thin, the score is thin, and the gap belongs to the publisher.

Where these numbers came from

Provenance

Every figure above was read from a file this hospital publishes because federal law requires it. Nothing here is estimated, modelled, or supplied by us.

https://sthpiprd.blob.core.windows.net/machine-readable-files/11263/362169147_advocate-christ-medical-center_standardcharges.csv
Hospital states last updated 4 Nov 2025 We fetched it 6 Aug 2026

These are published prices, not a quote and not a bill. What you owe depends on your own plan, your deductible, and what actually happens during your care.