Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital publishes no CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) rate for Comprehensive metabolic panel. We could put one of the 933 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 CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) pays.

The file does not say why it is missing — CountyCare (Cook County Health 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 CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) whether this hospital is in your network.

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $60.92 to $438. 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.