Bill of Health

Paying with

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

Showing rates Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) has negotiated. Ranges cover that insurer's different plans at the same hospital.

We priced

Lower back X-ray

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

4 hospitals · 9 published rates Cheapest $83.73 · dearest $116.39

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

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MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
2 published rates Lowest
$83.73
negotiated rate
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL
2 published rates
$83.73
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 3 published rates
$110.85
negotiated rate
Thinner paperwork than most here MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation scores 0.72 against 0.88 across these results for how completely it published its file. That is about the paperwork, not the care. Open the hospital to see which parts are missing.
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
2 published rates
$116.39
negotiated rate

Why a range? One insurer publishes different rates for different plans at the same hospital — a PPO and an HMO under the same name can differ several times over. We show what the hospital published rather than collapsing it into a single number that might not be yours.