Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
for Abdominal ultrasound · Sandwich 60548
Paying with
You told us you have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. 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 $481.08 to $2,532. 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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois pays here
Every rate this hospital published under a name we recognise as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, 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.
| VWH BLUE CROSS MEDICARE ADVT HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $481.08 |
| VWH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,415.39 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,529.33 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,529.33 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,595.16 |
| VWH BCBS HMO HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,649.60 |
| VWH BCBS PPO HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,068.64 |
| VWH BCBS HMO HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,649.60 |
| VWH BCBS PPO HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,068.64 |
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.
| VWH MEDICARE HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $481.08 |
| VWH MEDICARE HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $481.08 |
| VWH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $643.13 |
| VWH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $881.14 |
| VWH AETNA HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,655.93 |
| VWH AETNA ASA HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,754.68 |
| VWH HFN NMH TIER ONE HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,139.40 |
| VWH HFN HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,152.20 |
| VWH THE ALLIANCE HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,376.14 |
| VWH CHOICE CARE HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,706.57 |
| VWH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $1,899 |
| VWH PHCS HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,025.60 |
| VWH MULTIPLAN HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,215.50 |
| VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,532 |
| VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,532 |
| VWH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB US Exam Abdom Complete | $2,532 |
How complete the paperwork is
What Northwestern Medicine Valley West 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 Valley West 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.
0.82/ 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 Partial credit 43 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.61 | 0.25 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Near full credit 1205946 of 1291740 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.93 | 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 85794 of 1420779 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.94 | 0.14 |
| Total | 0.82 |
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.