Bill of Health

Published prices

Lower back X-ray

A standard X-ray series of the lower spine, at least four views.

Negotiated rates published

$18.33 – $1,390.54

across 45 hospitals in the Chicago metro. Lowest at MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER, highest at MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation. Both are figures those hospitals published themselves — nothing here is averaged, estimated or rounded.

Every figure above comes from the 45 hospitals listed below and from the single billing code hospitals use for it. Each is that hospital's own published figure.

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
45 hospitals · 345 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.

Everything published Only figures that look like prices
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
12 published rates Lowest
$18.33 – $432.66
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 27 published rates
$19.07 – $1,390.54
negotiated rate
Provident Hospital Cook County
Chicago 4 published rates
$22.75 – $214.40
negotiated rate
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL
12 published rates
$22.76 – $454.37
negotiated rate
Rush Oak Park Hospital
Oak Park 6 published rates
$22.76 – $644
negotiated rate
Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
6 published rates
$48.67 – $1,368
negotiated rate
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 7 published rates
$57.19 – $733
negotiated rate
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago 10 published rates
$60.05 – $195.72
negotiated rate
West Suburban Medical Center
Oak Park 10 published rates
$60.05 – $185.49
negotiated rate
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield 16 published rates
$89.63 – $1,299
negotiated rate
Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital
Arlington Heights 3 published rates
$99.51 – $142.73
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange
La Grange 2 published rates
$109.68 – $134.44
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
Hinsdale 3 published rates
$109.68 – $134.44
negotiated rate
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
10 published rates
$110.85 – $192.76
negotiated rate
Children's Hospital of Illinois
Peoria 1 published rate
$114.27
negotiated 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".
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey 1 published rate
$129.59
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks
Glendale Heights 1 published rate
$134.44
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook 1 published rate
$134.44
negotiated rate
Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital
Chicago 3 published rates
$135.70 – $150.78
negotiated rate
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago 1 published rate
$149.73
negotiated rate
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".
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Elgin 5 published rates
$153.62 – $545.11
negotiated rate
Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital
Elmhurst 2 published rates
$165.86 – $180.49
negotiated rate
Endeavor Health Edward Hospital
Naperville 2 published rates
$165.86 – $180.49
negotiated 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".
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Geneva 8 published rates
$193.55 – $905.66
negotiated rate
Advocate Condell Medical Center
Libertyville 5 published rates
$201.10 – $890.40
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
Palos Heights 8 published rates
$207.84 – $1,299
negotiated rate
Highland Park Hospital
Highland Park 3 published rates
$242.76 – $285.73
negotiated rate
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
Evanston 3 published rates
$242.76 – $285.73
negotiated 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.
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
Sandwich 9 published rates
$246.81 – $1,061.28
negotiated rate
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn 5 published rates
$318.78 – $550.80
negotiated rate
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Park Ridge 5 published rates
$323.34 – $790.73
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn 5 published rates
$324.68 – $561.51
negotiated rate
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove 5 published rates
$326.29 – $1,063.80
negotiated rate
Advocate Trinity Hospital
Chicago 5 published rates
$326.29 – $825.70
negotiated rate
Advocate South Suburban Hospital
Hazel Crest 5 published rates
$327.63 – $1,120.10
negotiated rate
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago 5 published rates
$328.44 – $822.14
negotiated rate
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington 5 published rates
$328.44 – $799.92
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
Park Ridge 5 published rates
$329.24 – $799.29
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
McHenry 8 published rates
$440.36 – $1,299
negotiated 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".
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago 30 published rates
$452.05 – $835.20
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 11 published rates
$453.44 – $540.80
negotiated rate
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago 21 published rates
$584.55 – $1,299
negotiated 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.
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
DeKalb 9 published rates
$726.14 – $1,299
negotiated rate
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park 20 published rates
$0.01 – $698.78
negotiated rate
Unusual for this billing code This hospital published $0.01 for this code — 45 of the 47 hospitals publishing it charge at least a thousand times that, and this hospital published $0.01 for 314 different billing codes. That is a placeholder, not a price.
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood 20 published rates
$0.01 – $1,058.22
negotiated rate
Unusual for this billing code This hospital published $0.01 for this code — 45 of the 47 hospitals publishing it charge at least a thousand times that, and this hospital published $0.01 for 260 different billing codes. That is a placeholder, not a price.

Comparisons against other hospitals were computed on 2 November 2026. Each price carries its own fetch date; a comparison is a snapshot of what other hospitals had published when it ran, not a standing fact.

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