Every published price

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital

for Lower back X-ray · Barrington 60010

Paying with

Any insurance Cash / no insurance Aetna Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Blue Cross Community Health Plans (Medicaid) Cigna CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) Humana Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) Medicare (fee-for-service) Meridian (Medicaid) Molina Healthcare (Medicaid) UnitedHealthcare

You told us you are paying without insurance, so the cash price below is the figure that applies to you.

Which of these is yours you said: paying cash

List price

The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays.

$1,010

Cash price Yours

What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance — you. Ask for it by this name.

$505

Negotiated rates

22 rates across 18 insurers. What each one actually pays. None of them is your price if you pay cash.

$160.73 – $808

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $160.73 to $808. 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.

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.

Ambetter $160.73

Plans, line items and rates for Ambetter
Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$160.73

Molina $160.73

Plans, line items and rates for Molina
Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$160.73

Oscar Health HMO $166.28

Plans, line items and rates for Oscar Health HMO
Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$166.28

Cigna $178.53

Plans, line items and rates for Cigna
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$178.53

Cigna One Health $178.53

Plans, line items and rates for Cigna One Health
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$178.53

Aetna $179.90

Plans, line items and rates for Aetna
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$179.90

HSTechnology $212.83

Plans, line items and rates for HSTechnology
Medicare Advantage XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$212.83

United Healthcare Charter $220

Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Charter
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$220

United Healthcare Nexus $293

Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Nexus
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$293

Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago $328.44

Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield City of Chicago
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$328.44

Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice $355

Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield Choice
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$355

Blue Cross Blue Shield $373.78 – $799.92 2.1×

Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield
PPO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$373.78
HMO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$799.92

Advocate Employee $397.94 – $441.37

Plans, line items and rates for Advocate Employee
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$397.94
XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$441.37

Private Healthcare Systems $545.40 – $808

Plans, line items and rates for Private Healthcare Systems
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$545.40
XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$808

United Healthcare Core Navigate $549

Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare Core Navigate
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$549

United Healthcare $634

Plans, line items and rates for United Healthcare
HMO XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$634

Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision $785.78

Plans, line items and rates for Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Precision
Managed Care XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$785.78

Multiplan $808

Plans, line items and rates for Multiplan
Commercial XR LUMBAR SPINE 4 VIEW MIN	$808

How complete the paperwork is

What Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital published — and what it left out

Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that Advocate Good Shepherd 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.

0.68/ 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 Advocate Good Shepherd 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 41 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount.	0.40	0.59	0.23
How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 529173 of 912195 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas.	0.25	0.58	0.15
How recently the file was updated Full credit Current: file states last_updated_on 2025-11-04 (344 days old).	0.20	1.00	0.20
How many rows are usable figures Partial credit 382684 of 1064501 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only).	0.15	0.64	0.10
Total			0.68

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://sthpiprd.blob.core.windows.net/machine-readable-files/11266/362169147_advocate-good-shepherd-hospital_standardcharges.csv

Hospital states last updated 4 Nov 2025 We fetched it 6 Aug 2026

Open file

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.