Every published price
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital
for Lower back X-ray · 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 have Medicare (fee-for-service). Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital publishes no Medicare (fee-for-service) rate for Lower back X-ray. We could put one of the 21 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 $215.63 to $1,299. 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.
| NLFH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $215.63 |
| NLFH AETNA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $558.57 |
| NLFH AETNA ASA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $591.05 |
| NLFH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $275.26 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $303.97 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $303.97 |
| NLFH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $303.97 |
| NLFH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $354.63 |
| NLFH BC LAKE COUNTY PHYS ASSOC IPA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $584.55 |
| NLFH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| NLFH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $275.26 |
| NLFH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $354.63 |
| NLFH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $649.50 |
| NLFH HFN PLATINUM/CHC ELITE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $830.06 |
| NLFH HFN PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,169.10 |
| NLFH THE ALLIANCE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $834.35 |
| NLFH PHCS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,039.20 |
| NLFH PHCS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,039.20 |
| NLFH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| NLFH FIRST HEALTH HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,065.18 |
| NLFH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
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.