Every published price
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital
for Brain MRI · Lake Forest 60045
One file, 2 locations. These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Grayslake — and the file does not say which of them any price belongs to. Every figure here is that whole file's rather than this one address's. The file's own header names it "Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital".
The facilities this file names, exactly as it names them: Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital · Northwestern Medicine Grayslake.
Paying with
You told us you are paying without insurance, so the cash price below is the figure that applies to you.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $1,277.04 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.
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.
| NLFH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,277.04 |
| NLFH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,630.15 |
| NLFH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,100.19 |
| NLFH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,630.15 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,800.16 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,800.16 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,800.16 |
| NLFH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,100.19 |
| NLFH BC LAKE COUNTY PHYS ASSOC IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,461.85 |
| NLFH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NLFH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,846.50 |
| NLFH HFN PLATINUM/CHC ELITE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,915.83 |
| NLFH HFN PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,923.70 |
| NLFH THE ALLIANCE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,941.21 |
| NLFH PHCS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,154.40 |
| NLFH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NLFH PHCS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,154.40 |
| NLFH FIRST HEALTH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,308.26 |
| NLFH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
How complete the paperwork is
What Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest 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 Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest 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.
0.84/ 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 55 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.79 | 0.31 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Near full credit 6490768 of 7908841 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.82 | 0.21 |
| 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 1418073 of 8501241 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.83 | 0.13 |
| Total | 0.84 |
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.