Published prices
CT scan of the head
A cross-sectional X-ray scan of the head, without contrast dye. Common after a head injury or for sudden severe headache.
Negotiated rates published
$46.44 – $3,535
across 34 hospitals in the Chicago metro. Lowest at Provident Hospital Cook County, highest at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital. Both are figures those hospitals published themselves — nothing here is averaged, estimated or rounded.
Every figure above comes from the 34 hospitals listed below and from the single billing code hospitals use for it. Each is that hospital's own published figure.
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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