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Cash prices published

$69.30 – $3,115

across 48 hospitals in the Chicago metro. Lowest at Provident Hospital Cook County, highest at University of Chicago Medical Center. Both are figures those hospitals published themselves — nothing here is averaged, estimated or rounded.

Every figure above comes from the 48 hospitals listed below and from the single billing code hospitals use for it. Each is that hospital's own published figure. 4 further hospitals publish a figure for this and are withheld below, because what they published is too incomplete to line up fairly against the rest. Those figures still count as peers wherever a comparison appears beside a price, which is why a comparison can be drawn from more hospitals than this page counts — how completely a hospital published says nothing about whether its price belongs in the comparison.

Any insurance Cash / no insurance Aetna Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Blue Cross Community Health Plans (Medicaid) Cigna CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) Humana Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) Medicare (fee-for-service) Meridian (Medicaid) Molina Healthcare (Medicaid) UnitedHealthcare

48 hospitals · 69 published rates Cheapest first

Sorted cheapest first. A published figure that behaves like a placeholder rather than a real price — one cent, or a figure orders of magnitude below what other hospitals publish for the same billing code — never leads this order. It stays listed, after every other figure, ordered by its own amount among the others like it.

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Provident Hospital Cook County

Chicago 2 published rates Lowest

$69.30 – $187.60

MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER

2 published rates

$107.58 – $1,460.54

HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL

2 published rates

$107.58 – $1,460.54

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital

Melrose Park 1 published rate

University of Chicago Medical Center

Chicago 3 published rates

$399 – $3,115

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".

Loyola University Medical Center

Maywood 1 published rate

UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange

La Grange 1 published rate

UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale

Hinsdale 1 published rate

UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks

Glendale Heights 1 published rate

UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook

Bolingbrook 1 published rate

West Suburban Medical Center

Oak Park 2 published rates

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital

Barrington 2 published rates

St. Bernard Hospital

Chicago 1 published rate

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Oak Lawn 2 published rates

Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn

Oak Lawn 2 published rates

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Park Ridge 2 published rates

Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge

Park Ridge 2 published rates

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

Chicago 2 published rates

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago 1 published rate

Advocate Condell Medical Center

Libertyville 2 published rates

Advocate South Suburban Hospital

Hazel Crest 2 published rates

Advocate Trinity Hospital

Chicago 2 published rates

Highland Park Hospital

Highland Park 3 published rates

$829.40 – $1,276

Rush Oak Park Hospital

Oak Park 1 published rate

Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital

Chicago 2 published rates

Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)

1 published rate

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital

Downers Grove 2 published rates

Advocate Sherman Hospital

Elgin 2 published rates

Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital

Arlington Heights 1 published rate

UChicago Crown Point

Crown Point 1 published rate

Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc

1 published rate

Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital

Chicago 1 published rate

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Evanston 1 published rate

Not one hospital — 3 facilities in one file This is not a single hospital. Endeavor Health Clinical Operations publishes one price file for 3 of its facilities — Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital, Endeavor Health Glenbrook Hospital and Endeavor Health Skokie Hospital — and names all 3 without saying which of them any price belongs to, so these figures cannot be split between them. The address we show for it — 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 — is the one this file gives for Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital, one of the 3, and not an address of its own. We list it under "Endeavor Health Skokie Hospital", the name that publisher's own index of its files gave this one; the file's own header calls it "Endeavor Health Clinical Operations". The prices are served in full, exactly as published; what no file here can tell you is which of the 3 you would be charged at.

Children's Hospital of Illinois

Peoria 1 published rate

One file, 3 locations These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Almost Home Kids at OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois and Childrens Hospital of Illinois — 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 "OSF Saint Francis Medical Center".

SCHWAB REHAB HOSPITAL AND CARE NETWORK

1 published rate

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Chicago 2 published rates

Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital

Palos Heights 1 published rate

Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital

Sandwich 1 published rate

Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital

Wheaton 1 published rate

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital

Lake Forest 1 published rate

One file, 2 locations These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Grayslake — 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 "Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital".

Central DuPage Hospital

Winfield 1 published rate

Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital

McHenry 1 published rate

One file, 3 locations These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital, Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Woodstock 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 "Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital".

Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital

DeKalb 1 published rate

Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital

Geneva 1 published rate

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago 1 published rate

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.

Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital

Elmhurst 1 published rate

Endeavor Health Edward Hospital

Naperville 1 published rate

One file, 2 locations These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Endeavor Health Edward Hospital and Edward Emergency Center - Plainfield — 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 "Edward Hospital".

Ingalls Memorial Hospital

Harvey 1 published rate

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4 hospitals withheld

These publish a price for this service, but what they published is too incomplete for us to line up fairly against the rest. They are listed so you know they exist, and each opens to its full prices and the exact parts of its disclosure that are missing — this is about their paperwork, not their care.

Glenbrook Hospital

Glenview Incomplete disclosure

Incomplete disclosure Glenbrook Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.

Skokie Hospital

Skokie Incomplete disclosure

Incomplete disclosure Skokie Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.

Evanston Hospital

Evanston Incomplete disclosure

Incomplete disclosure Evanston Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.

Endeavor Health Linden Oaks Hospital

Naperville Incomplete disclosure

Incomplete disclosure Endeavor Health Linden Oaks Hospital scored 0.37 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.