Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
for Kidney function test · Sandwich 60548
Paying with
You told us you have Medicare (fee-for-service). Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital publishes no Medicare (fee-for-service) rate for Kidney function test. We could put one of the 48 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 Medicare (fee-for-service) pays.
The file does not say why it is missing — Medicare (fee-for-service) 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 Medicare (fee-for-service) whether this hospital is in your network.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $37.24 to $212. 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.
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 Renal Function Panel | $37.24 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $40.28 |
| VWH BLUE CROSS MEDICARE ADVT HB Renal Function Panel | $37.24 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $40.28 |
| VWH MEDICARE HB Renal Function Panel | $37.24 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $40.28 |
| VWH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB Renal Function Panel | $49.78 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $53.85 |
| VWH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB Renal Function Panel | $68.21 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $73.78 |
| VWH AETNA ASA HB Renal Function Panel | $135.83 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $146.92 |
| VWH HFN NMH TIER ONE HB Renal Function Panel | $88.20 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $95.40 |
| VWH HFN HB Renal Function Panel | $166.60 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $180.20 |
| VWH THE ALLIANCE HB Renal Function Panel | $106.53 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $115.22 |
| VWH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB Renal Function Panel | $109.56 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $118.51 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB Renal Function Panel | $118.38 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $128.05 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB Renal Function Panel | $118.38 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $128.05 |
| VWH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB Renal Function Panel | $123.48 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $133.56 |
| VWH BCBS HMO HB Renal Function Panel | $127.69 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $138.12 |
| VWH BCBS PPO HB Renal Function Panel | $160.13 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $173.20 |
| VWH BCBS HMO HB Renal Function Panel | $127.69 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $138.12 |
| VWH BCBS PPO HB Renal Function Panel | $160.13 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $173.20 |
| VWH CHOICE CARE HB Renal Function Panel | $132.10 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $142.89 |
| VWH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB Renal Function Panel | $147 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $159 |
| VWH PHCS HB Renal Function Panel | $156.80 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $169.60 |
| VWH MULTIPLAN HB Renal Function Panel | $171.50 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $185.50 |
| VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Renal Function Panel | $196 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| VWH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB Renal Function Panel | $196 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
| VWH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB Renal Function Panel | $196 |
| HB Ref Renal Function Panel | $212 |
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.