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Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital

for Brain MRI · Sandwich 60548

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Which of these is yours you said: Cigna
List price
The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays.
$7,693
Cash price
What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance.
$5,385.10
Cigna
This hospital published no rate for Cigna. Nothing else on this page substitutes for it.
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Every other insurer
24 rates across 13 insurers that are not yours. Context, not your price.
$1,461.67 – $7,693

Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital publishes no Cigna rate for Brain MRI. We could put one of the 24 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 Cigna pays.

The file does not say why it is missing — Cigna 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 Cigna whether this hospital is in your network.

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $1,461.67 to $7,693. 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.

GLOBAL EXCEL [1712] $1,461.67
Plans, line items and rates for GLOBAL EXCEL [1712]
VWH MEDICARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $1,461.67
ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS MEDICARE ADV [2304] $1,461.67
Plans, line items and rates for ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS MEDICARE ADV [2304]
VWH BLUE CROSS MEDICARE ADVT HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $1,461.67
ALTERNATE HUMANA MEDICARE ADV [2409] $1,461.67
Plans, line items and rates for ALTERNATE HUMANA MEDICARE ADV [2409]
VWH MEDICARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $1,461.67
AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171] $1,954.02 – $5,331.25 2.7×
Plans, line items and rates for AETNA HEALTH PLAN [171]
VWH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $1,954.02
VWH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $2,677.16
VWH AETNA ASA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $5,331.25
HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126] $3,461.85 – $6,539.05
Plans, line items and rates for HEALTH'S FINEST NETWORK [126]
VWH HFN NMH TIER ONE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $3,461.85
VWH HFN HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $6,539.05
THE ALLIANCE [1703] $4,181.15
Plans, line items and rates for THE ALLIANCE [1703]
VWH THE ALLIANCE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $4,181.15
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401] $4,300.39 – $6,285.18
Plans, line items and rates for BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD [1401]
VWH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $4,300.39
VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $4,646.57
VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $4,646.57
VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $4,846.59
VWH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $5,011.99
VWH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $6,285.18
ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402] $5,011.99 – $6,285.18
Plans, line items and rates for ALTERNATE BLUE CROSS [1402]
VWH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $5,011.99
VWH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $6,285.18
CHOICECARE [177] $5,185.08
Plans, line items and rates for CHOICECARE [177]
VWH CHOICE CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $5,185.08
HEALTHLINK [125] $5,769.75
Plans, line items and rates for HEALTHLINK [125]
VWH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $5,769.75
MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142] $6,154.40 – $7,693
Plans, line items and rates for MULTIPLAN/PHCS [142]
VWH PHCS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $6,154.40
VWH MULTIPLAN HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $6,731.38
VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $7,693
FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034] $7,693
Plans, line items and rates for FIRST HEALTH PLAN [6034]
VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $7,693
UNITED HEALTHCARE [158] $7,693
Plans, line items and rates for UNITED HEALTHCARE [158]
VWH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye $7,693

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

The four parts of Northwestern Medicine Valley West 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 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.

https://www.nm.org/site_data/364244337_northwestern-medicine-valley-west-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.