Every published price

Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital

for Brain MRI · Palos Heights 60463

Paying with

Any insurance Cash / no insurance Aetna Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Blue Cross Community Health Plans (Medicaid) Cigna CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) Humana Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) Medicare (fee-for-service) Meridian (Medicaid) Molina Healthcare (Medicaid) UnitedHealthcare

You told us you are paying without insurance, so the cash price below is the figure that applies to you.

Which of these is yours you said: paying cash

List price

The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays.

$7,693

Cash price Yours

What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance — you. Ask for it by this name.

$5,385.10

Negotiated rates

28 rates across 17 insurers. What each one actually pays. None of them is your price if you pay cash.

$1,230.88 – $7,693

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $1,230.88 to $7,693. That is not an error, and it is not our arithmetic — it is what the hospital published.

The difference is between insurers and plans. Each negotiates its own rate, so which figure applies to you depends on the card in your wallet.

Rate by insurer, plan and line item

What each insurer pays

Sorted cheapest first, grouped by plan and then by the hospital's own line item. Plan names and line items are written exactly as the hospital wrote them. A plan that carries more than one price gets one row per price; line items the hospital priced the same are listed together once, because the file gives no reason to show one price as several.

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] $1,230.88 – $7,693 6.3×

Plans, line items and rates for BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401]
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,230.88
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS SELECT HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,230.88
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,230.88
PH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,477.06
PH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$3,010.27
PH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402] $1,477.06 – $3,010.27 2×

Plans, line items and rates for ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402]
PH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,477.06
PH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$3,010.27

AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] $1,654 – $7,693 4.7×

Plans, line items and rates for AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171]
PH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$1,654
PH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$2,607.93
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

HEALTHLINK [125] $3,846.50 – $7,693 2×

Plans, line items and rates for HEALTHLINK [125]
PH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$3,846.50
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

CARELON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH [159] $3,846.50

Plans, line items and rates for CARELON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH [159]
PH VALUE OPTIONS BHO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$3,846.50

MAGELLAN BEHAVIORAL HLTH [136] $4,615.80

Plans, line items and rates for MAGELLAN BEHAVIORAL HLTH [136]
PH MAGELLAN BHS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$4,615.80

THE ALLIANCE [1703] $4,941.21

Plans, line items and rates for THE ALLIANCE [1703]
PH THE ALLIANCE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$4,941.21

FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034] $5,769.75

Plans, line items and rates for FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034]
PH FIRST HEALTH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$5,769.75

COMPSYCH [112] $5,769.75

Plans, line items and rates for COMPSYCH [112]
PH COMPSYCH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$5,769.75

BEECHSTREET [176] $6,154.40

Plans, line items and rates for BEECHSTREET [176]
PH BEECHSTREET HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$6,154.40

CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178] $6,154.40 – $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178]
PH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL BHS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$6,154.40
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] $6,539.05

Plans, line items and rates for HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126]
PH HFN HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$6,539.05

HEALTH ALLIANCE [181] $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for HEALTH ALLIANCE [181]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

GLOBAL EXCEL [1712] $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for GLOBAL EXCEL [1712]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

GALAXY HEALTH NETWORK [220] $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for GALAXY HEALTH NETWORK [220]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] $7,693

Plans, line items and rates for UNITED HEALTHCARE [158]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693
PH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye	$7,693

How complete the paperwork is

What Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital published — and what it left out

Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that Northwestern Medicine Palos 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.

0.89/ 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 Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital'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 Near full credit 57 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount.	0.40	0.81	0.33
How often the price is a dollar amount Near full credit 4461271 of 4960391 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas.	0.25	0.90	0.23
How recently the file was updated Full credit Current: file states last_updated_on 2026-04-01 (196 days old).	0.20	1.00	0.20
How many rows are usable figures Near full credit 499120 of 5277261 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only).	0.15	0.91	0.14
Total			0.89

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://www.nm.org/site_data/362169179_palos-community-hospital_standardcharges.json

Hospital states last updated 1 Apr 2026 We fetched it 6 Aug 2026

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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.