Every published price
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
for Lower back X-ray · Park Ridge 60068
Paying with
You told us you have Aetna. Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $160.73 to $952.30. 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.
Your insurer
What Aetna pays here
Every rate this hospital published under a name we recognise as Aetna, cheapest first, grouped by plan and then by the hospital's own line item. Which one is yours depends on your plan and on which line item this hospital bills the service under — the file does not know which card you carry, and does not say which line item it would use.
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $179.90 |
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.
| Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $160.73 |
| Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $160.73 |
| Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $166.28 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $178.53 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $178.53 |
| Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $212.83 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $220 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $293 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $323.34 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $349.37 |
| PPO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $367.88 |
| HMO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $790.73 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $421.58 |
| XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $467.59 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $549 |
| HMO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $634 |
| Managed Care XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $777.89 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $856 |
| Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $856 |
| XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN | $952.30 |
How complete the paperwork is
What Advocate Lutheran General Hospital published — and what it left out
Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 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
| What we checked | Weight | Scored | Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many common services carry a price Partial credit 42 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.60 | 0.24 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 684416 of 1209055 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.57 | 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 524137 of 1407672 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.63 | 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.
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.