Published prices

Lower back X-ray

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

Negotiated rates published

$70.48 – $89.63

across 2 hospitals in the Chicago metro. Lowest at Rush University Medical Center, highest at Central DuPage Hospital. Both are figures those hospitals published themselves — nothing here is averaged, estimated or rounded.

Every figure above comes from the 2 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

2 hospitals · 2 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

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago 1 published rate Lowest

$70.48

negotiated rate

Central DuPage Hospital

Winfield 1 published rate

$89.63

negotiated rate

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