Every published price
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
for Brain MRI · Chicago 60611
One file, 2 locations. These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women's 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 facilities this file names, exactly as it names them: Northwestern Memorial Hospital · Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women's Hospital.
Paying with
You told us you have Aetna. Their rates are marked as yours; the rest are here so you can see the whole file.
The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $1,492.44 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.
Your insurer
What Aetna pays here
Every rate this hospital published under a name we recognise as Aetna, cheapest first, grouped by plan and then by the hospital's own line item. Which one is yours depends on your plan and on which line item this hospital bills the service under — the file does not know which card you carry, and does not say which line item it would use.
| NMH AETNA NM EMPLOYEES HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,492.44 |
| NMHC IMAGINE HEALTH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,077.11 |
| NMH AETNA BP HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,307.90 |
| NMH AETNA ASA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,715.63 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
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.
| NMHC CURAECHOICE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $1,800.16 |
| NMHC IMAGINE HEALTH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $2,077.11 |
| NMH ADVOCATE IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,077.20 |
| NMH CHS IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,077.20 |
| NMHC SCPP IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,461.85 |
| NMHC UIC IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,846.50 |
| NMHC CHWN IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,461.85 |
| NMHC SCPP IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,461.85 |
| NMHC UIC IPA HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,846.50 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMH SEIU HEALTHLINK HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $3,846.50 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC GMMI HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $4,461.94 |
| NMH HFN PLATINUM/CHC ELITE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,000.45 |
| NMH HFN/20 EPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,308.26 |
| NMH HFN/10 PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,539.05 |
| NMHC MEDPARTNERS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $5,385.10 |
| NMH PHCS PPO HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,154.40 |
| NMH NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMH CIGNA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (EVERNORTH) HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $6,154.40 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMH Optum UBH HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMH UHC NON-CONTRACTED OON - ED ONLY HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC NON-CONTRACTED PAYORS HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
| NMHC UHC REF LAB JOHN DEERE HB MRI Brain Stem W/O & W/Dye | $7,693 |
How complete the paperwork is
What Northwestern Memorial 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 Memorial 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.
0.92/ 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 Near full credit 60 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. | 0.40 | 0.86 | 0.34 |
| How often the price is a dollar amount Near full credit 20740310 of 21837583 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. | 0.25 | 0.95 | 0.24 |
| 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 1097273 of 22715116 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). | 0.15 | 0.95 | 0.14 |
| Total | 0.92 |
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.