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Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital

for Physical therapy session · Palos Heights 60463

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Which of these is yours you said: paying cash
List price
The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays.
$236
Cash price Yours
What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance — you. Ask for it by this name.
$165.20
Negotiated rates
33 rates across 17 insurers. What each one actually pays. None of them is your price if you pay cash.
$37.76 – $236

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $37.76 to $236. 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] $37.76 – $236 6.3×
Plans, line items and rates for BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401]
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB Therapeutic Exercises $37.76
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS SELECT HB Therapeutic Exercises $37.76
PH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB Therapeutic Exercises $37.76
PH BCBS PPO HB Therapeutic Exercises $45.31
PH BCBS HMO HB Therapeutic Exercises $92.35
PH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178] $44.13 – $236 5.3×
Plans, line items and rates for CIGNA HEALTH PLAN [178]
PH CIGNA ALTERNATIVE HB Therapeutic Exercises $44.13
PH CIGNA BROAD HB Therapeutic Exercises $69.86
PH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL BHS HB Therapeutic Exercises $188.80
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402] $45.31 – $92.35 2×
Plans, line items and rates for ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402]
PH BCBS PPO HB Therapeutic Exercises $45.31
PH BCBS HMO HB Therapeutic Exercises $92.35
AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] $50.74 – $236 4.7×
Plans, line items and rates for AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171]
PH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB Therapeutic Exercises $50.74
PH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB Therapeutic Exercises $80
PH AETNA HB Therapeutic Exercises $134.05
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
HEALTHLINK [125] $118 – $236 2×
Plans, line items and rates for HEALTHLINK [125]
PH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB Therapeutic Exercises $118
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
CARELON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH [159] $118
Plans, line items and rates for CARELON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH [159]
PH VALUE OPTIONS BHO HB Therapeutic Exercises $118
FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034] $134.05 – $177
Plans, line items and rates for FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034]
PH AETNA HB Therapeutic Exercises $134.05
PH FIRST HEALTH HB Therapeutic Exercises $177
MAGELLAN BEHAVIORAL HLTH [136] $141.60
Plans, line items and rates for MAGELLAN BEHAVIORAL HLTH [136]
PH MAGELLAN BHS HB Therapeutic Exercises $141.60
THE ALLIANCE [1703] $151.58
Plans, line items and rates for THE ALLIANCE [1703]
PH THE ALLIANCE HB Therapeutic Exercises $151.58
MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] $165.20 – $236
Plans, line items and rates for MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142]
PH MULTIPLAN/PHCS HB Therapeutic Exercises $165.20
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
COMPSYCH [112] $177
Plans, line items and rates for COMPSYCH [112]
PH COMPSYCH HB Therapeutic Exercises $177
BEECHSTREET [176] $188.80
Plans, line items and rates for BEECHSTREET [176]
PH BEECHSTREET HB Therapeutic Exercises $188.80
HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] $200.60
Plans, line items and rates for HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126]
PH HFN HB Therapeutic Exercises $200.60
HEALTH ALLIANCE [181] $236
Plans, line items and rates for HEALTH ALLIANCE [181]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
GLOBAL EXCEL [1712] $236
Plans, line items and rates for GLOBAL EXCEL [1712]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
GALAXY HEALTH NETWORK [220] $236
Plans, line items and rates for GALAXY HEALTH NETWORK [220]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] $236
Plans, line items and rates for UNITED HEALTHCARE [158]
PH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Therapeutic Exercises $236
PH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB Therapeutic Exercises $236

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

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.