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Hospitals answering this search, placed on a street map of the Chicago metro. 49 hospital markers placed by postcode across the metro, numbered in the same order as the list below, cheapest first: number 1 is $195.30 and number 46 is $7,315, 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.
Pill colour runs from $195.30 (the lowest price on this scale, green) to $7,315 (the highest price, red). The colour only repeats what each pill already prints — the figure itself — and says nothing about the care.
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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.
2 hospitals not on the map
These hospitals answered your search and are missing from the picture above. Each says below why it is not placed. The prices are as real as any other on this page.
Every hospital in this search
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1 Provident Hospital Cook County$195.30 – $624.40cash price
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2 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$197.42 – $4,099.58cash price
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3 HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL$197.42 – $4,099.58cash price
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4 Gottlieb Memorial Hospital$994.84cash price
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5 Loyola University Medical Center$1,204.28cash price
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6 UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange$1,350cash price
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7 UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale$1,350cash price
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8 UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks$1,350cash price
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9 UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook$1,350cash price
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10 Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)$1,404.15cash price
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11 West Suburban Medical Center$1,885.66cash price
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12 Advocate Christ Medical Center$1,915cash price
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13 Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn$1,915cash price
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14 Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital$2,043.51cash price
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15 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center$2,125cash price
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16 Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital$2,240cash price
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17 St. Bernard Hospital$2,266cash price
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18 Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital$2,360cash price
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19 Rush Oak Park Hospital$2,383.50cash price
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20 Rush University Medical Center$2,390.50cash price
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21 Advocate South Suburban Hospital$2,575cash price
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22 Advocate Trinity Hospital$2,575cash price
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23 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital$2,650cash price
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24 Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge$2,650cash price
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25 Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc$2,721cash price
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26 Advocate Condell Medical Center$2,750cash price
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27 Advocate Sherman Hospital$2,785cash price
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28 Highland Park Hospital$3,243.50 – $4,990cash price
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29 Children's Hospital of IllinoisOne 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".$3,613.20cash price
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30 UChicago Crown Point$3,657cash price
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31 Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital$3,992 – $4,381cash price
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32 Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$4,570.30cash price
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33 Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital$4,990cash price
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34 Endeavor Health Clinical OperationsNot 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.$4,990cash price
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35 Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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36 Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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37 Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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38 Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital DBA Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest HospitalOne file, 2 locations These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Grayslake — 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 "Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital".$5,385.10cash price
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39 Central DuPage Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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40 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".$5,385.10cash price
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41 Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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42 Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital$5,385.10cash price
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43 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.$5,385.10cash price
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44 Ingalls Memorial Hospital$6,926cash price
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45 University of Chicago Medical CenterOne 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".$7,132cash price
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46 Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital$7,315cash price
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47 Endeavor Health Edward HospitalOne 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".$7,315cash price
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A Glenbrook HospitalIncomplete disclosure. Glenbrook Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.$3,243.50cash price
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B Skokie HospitalIncomplete disclosure. Skokie Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.$3,243.50cash price
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C Evanston HospitalIncomplete disclosure. Evanston Hospital scored 0.35 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.$3,243.50cash price
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D Endeavor Health Linden Oaks HospitalIncomplete disclosure. Endeavor Health Linden Oaks Hospital scored 0.37 out of 1.00 on how completely it published its file, below the 0.50 we require to compare it. The price is real and the hospital is open to you — this is about their paperwork, not their care.$7,315cash price