Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
for CT scan of the head · Palos Heights 60463
Paying with
You told us you have Meridian (Medicaid). Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital publishes no Meridian (Medicaid) rate for CT scan of the head. We could put one of the 27 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 Meridian (Medicaid) pays.
The file does not say why it is missing — Meridian (Medicaid) 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 Meridian (Medicaid) whether this hospital is in your network.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $565.60 to $3,535. 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.
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.
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $565.60 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS SELECT HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $565.60 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $565.60 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $678.72 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $1,383.25 |
| PH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $678.72 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $1,383.25 |
| PH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $760.03 |
| PH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $1,198.37 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $1,767.50 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH VALUE OPTIONS BHO HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $1,767.50 |
| PH MAGELLAN BHS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $2,121 |
| PH THE ALLIANCE HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $2,270.53 |
| PH FIRST HEALTH HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $2,651.25 |
| PH BEECHSTREET HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $2,828 |
| PH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL BHS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $2,828 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH HFN HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,004.75 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
| PH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB CT Head/Brain W/O Dye | $3,535 |
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
| 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.
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.