Every published price
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
for Lower back X-ray · DeKalb 60115
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Showing every price this hospital published. Say how you are paying and we will mark the one that is yours.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $237.72 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.
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 X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $237.72 |
| KH AETNA NIU HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $441.66 |
| KH AETNA IL PREFERRED HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $466.34 |
| KH AETNA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $875.53 |
| KH AETNA ASA HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $975.55 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,117.14 |
| KH HFN NMH TIER ONE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $584.55 |
| KH HFN HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,195.08 |
| KH BCBS PAR/INDEMNITY ADP HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $726.14 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE OPTIONS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $784.60 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE PREFERRED HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $784.60 |
| KH BCBS BLUECHOICE SELECT HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $784.60 |
| KH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $862.41 |
| KH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $922.29 |
| KH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| KH THE ALLIANCE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $844.35 |
| KH BCBS HMO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $862.41 |
| KH BCBS PPO HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $922.29 |
| KH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $974.25 |
| KH CHOICE CARE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $982.04 |
| KH MULTIPLAN HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,013.22 |
| KH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,117.14 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,117.14 |
| KH PERSONAL CARE HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,117.14 |
| KH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
| KH OPTUM UBH BHS PROF HB X-Ray Exam L-2 Spine 4/>Vws | $1,299 |
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.