On the map
Abdominal ultrasound
A sound-wave scan of the organs in the abdomen — liver, gallbladder, kidneys, pancreas.
Hospitals answering this search, placed on a street map of the Chicago metro. One hospital answered for Abdominal ultrasound, so there is no range to plot it against. Its marker opens to its price, and the list below carries the same figure. 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.
There is only one hospital to show, so there is nothing to rank it against. Its published figure is $399.50.
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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.
- 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.