Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
for Brain MRI · DeKalb 60115
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 $1,407.82 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.
| KH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,407.82 |
| KH AETNA NIU HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,615.62 |
| KH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,761.79 |
| KH AETNA ASA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,777.44 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,615.98 |
| KH HFN NMH TIER ONE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,461.85 |
| KH HFN HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,077.56 |
| KH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,300.39 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,646.57 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,646.57 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,646.57 |
| KH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,107.38 |
| KH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,462.03 |
| KH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| KH THE ALLIANCE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,000.45 |
| KH BCBS HMO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,107.38 |
| KH BCBS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,462.03 |
| KH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,769.75 |
| KH CHOICE CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,815.91 |
| KH MULTIPLAN HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,000.54 |
| KH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,615.98 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,615.98 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,615.98 |
| KH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| KH OPTUM UBH BHS PROF HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
How complete the paperwork is
What Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee 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 Kishwaukee 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.
0.80/ 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 54 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.77 | 0.31 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 2295008 of 3169874 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.72 | 0.18 |
| 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 Partial credit 874866 of 3389948 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.74 | 0.11 |
| Total | 0.80 |
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.