Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
for Lower back X-ray · Palos Heights 60463
Paying with
You told us you have Cigna. 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 $207.84 to $1,299. 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.
Your insurer
What Cigna pays here
Every rate this hospital published under a name we recognise as Cigna, 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.
| PH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL BHS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,039.20 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
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 X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $207.84 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS SELECT HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $207.84 |
| PH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $207.84 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $249.41 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $508.30 |
| PH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $249.41 |
| PH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $508.30 |
| PH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $279.29 |
| PH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $440.36 |
| PH AETNA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $737.83 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $649.50 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH VALUE OPTIONS BHO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $649.50 |
| PH AETNA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $737.83 |
| PH FIRST HEALTH HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $974.25 |
| PH MAGELLAN BHS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $779.40 |
| PH THE ALLIANCE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $834.35 |
| PH COMPSYCH HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $974.25 |
| PH BEECHSTREET HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,039.20 |
| PH HFN HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,104.15 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| PH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
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.