Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
for Kidney function test · Palos Heights 60463
Paying with
You told us you are paying without insurance, so the cash price below is the figure that applies to you.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $33.92 to $253. 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.
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.
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $33.92 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $40.48 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS SELECT HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $33.92 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $40.48 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $33.92 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $40.48 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $40.70 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $48.58 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $82.96 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $99 |
| PH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $40.70 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $48.58 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $82.96 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $99 |
| PH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $45.58 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $54.40 |
| PH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $71.87 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $85.77 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH VALUE OPTIONS BHO HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $106 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $126.50 |
| PH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $106 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $126.50 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH MAGELLAN BHS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $127.20 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $151.80 |
| PH MULTIPLAN/PHCS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $148.40 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $177.10 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH COMPSYCH HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $159 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $189.75 |
| PH FIRST HEALTH HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $159 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $189.75 |
| PH BEECHSTREET HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $169.60 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $202.40 |
| PH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL BHS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $169.60 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $202.40 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH HFN HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $180.20 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $215.05 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
| PH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| HB Renal Function Panel | $253 |
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.