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Brain MRI
A detailed scan of the brain using a magnetic field. Often used to investigate headaches, dizziness, or neurological symptoms.
Hospitals answering this search, placed on a street map of the Chicago metro. 34 hospital markers placed by postcode across the metro, numbered in the same order as the list below, cheapest first: number 1 is $128.39 and number 31 is $6,154.40, the two ends of the scale. Each marker is a pill printing its number and the figure the hospital published, so the price reads straight off the map without any colour at all. The numbered list below carries every hospital, its price, its distance and its disclosure note. The map is a visual restatement of the list under it; skip to “Every hospital in this search” for the same hospitals in the same order.
Numbers run from 1 upwards, cheapest first. Nothing here says a hospital is a better place to be treated — we hold no clinical or outcome data at all.
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Hospitals are placed at the centre of their postcode, not at their front door, so a marker can sit a few streets from the building it names. Distances are postcode to postcode for the same reason. Where hospitals share a postcode, their markers are fanned a street's width apart so each stays readable — the spacing is ours, not a claim about their addresses, and the distances are unaffected.
How to read a marker
- The number is this hospital's position in the order, cheapest first, and it is the same number the list below carries. Select a marker for the hospital's name, its published figure and the way through to its prices.
- The figure on the pill is the hospital's own lowest published figure for this search, exactly as published — the same number the list below carries, so the price reads with no colour at all.
- Color by price tints each pill on a scale from the lowest price (green) to the highest price (red) in this result. The tint repeats what the pill already prints and carries nothing of its own; the plain pills say everything without it.
- A dashed outline means there is something to know about what that hospital published, spelled out in the list below. A dashed marker with a letter instead of a number is a hospital we have withheld from the ranking.
- Nothing on this map ranks hospitals by their care. We hold no clinical or outcome data about any hospital at all — only how completely each one published its prices.
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.
Every hospital in this search
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1 Provident Hospital Cook County$128.39 – $750negotiated rate
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2 Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)$244.17 – $486negotiated rate
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3 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$348.59 – $7,238.68negotiated rate
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4 HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL$351.69 – $7,303.11negotiated rate
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5 Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital$372.28 – $466negotiated rate
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6 West Suburban Medical Center$372.28 – $466negotiated rate
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7 Gottlieb Memorial Hospital$383.45 – $2,106negotiated rate
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8 MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation$383.45 – $2,105negotiated rate
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9 Loyola University Medical Center$383.45 – $2,106negotiated rate
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10 UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange$385.08 – $563.65negotiated rate
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11 UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale$385.08 – $586.75negotiated rate
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12 UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks$385.08 – $545.17negotiated rate
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13 UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook$385.08 – $563.65negotiated rate
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14 Rush Oak Park Hospital$443.71 – $4,767negotiated rate
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15 Rush University Medical Center$449.20 – $4,781negotiated rate
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16 Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc$449.24 – $5,442negotiated rate
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17 Advocate Condell Medical Center$1,096negotiated rate
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18 Advocate Christ Medical Center$1,096negotiated rate
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19 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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20 Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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21 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center$1,096negotiated rate
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22 Advocate South Suburban Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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23 Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge$1,096negotiated rate
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24 Advocate Trinity Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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25 Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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26 Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn$1,096negotiated rate
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27 Advocate Sherman Hospital$1,096negotiated rate
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28 Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$2,742.18 – $4,635.59negotiated rate
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29 Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital$3,846.50 – $4,615.80negotiated rate
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30 Northwestern Medicine McHenry HospitalOne 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".$5,769.75negotiated rate
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31 Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital$6,154.40 – $7,693negotiated rate
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32 Central DuPage Hospital$6,154.40negotiated rate
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33 Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital$6,154.40negotiated rate
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34 Northwestern Memorial HospitalOne 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.$6,154.40 – $7,693negotiated rate