Every published price
University of Chicago Medical Center
for Brain MRI · Chicago 60637
One file, 3 locations. These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — The University of Chicago Medical Center, UChicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery and UChicago Medicine Comer Childrens Hospital — 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 "The University of Chicago Medical Center".
The facilities this file names, exactly as it names them: The University of Chicago Medical Center · UChicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery · UChicago Medicine Comer Childrens Hospital.
Paying with
You told us you have Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid). Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
University of Chicago Medical Center publishes no Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) rate for Brain MRI. We could put one of the 6 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 Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) pays.
The file does not say why it is missing — Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) 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 Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) whether this hospital is in your network.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $373.86 to $4,063.29. 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.
| Medicare Managed Care Plan Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $373.86 |
| Hmo/Ppo Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $2,341.05 |
| All Commercial Plans Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $429.94 |
| Exchange Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $542.10 |
| All Commercial Plans Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $1,104.36 |
| Ppo Mri brain stem w/o & w/dye | $4,063.29 |
How complete the paperwork is
What University of Chicago Medical Center published — and what it left out
Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that University of Chicago Medical Center 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 53 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.76 | 0.30 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 66052 of 100333 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.66 | 0.17 |
| 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 34281 of 284005 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.88 | 0.13 |
| 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.