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Showing rates Humana has negotiated. Ranges cover that insurer's different plans at the same hospital.

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16 hospitals · 72 published rates Cheapest $35.19 · dearest $1,368

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.

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Children's Hospital of Illinois
Peoria 2 published rates Lowest
$35.19
negotiated rate
One 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".
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago 4 published rates
$107.53 – $110.85
negotiated rate
Thinner paperwork than most here Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital scores 0.59 against 0.80 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.
West Suburban Medical Center
Oak Park 4 published rates
$107.53 – $110.85
negotiated rate
Thinner paperwork than most here West Suburban Medical Center scores 0.61 against 0.80 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)
4 published rates
$110.85 – $121.94
negotiated rate
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
2 published rates
$112.03
negotiated rate
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park 8 published rates
$113.40 – $206.33
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 9 published rates
$113.40 – $293.79
negotiated rate
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood 8 published rates
$113.40 – $206.33
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
Sandwich 1 published rate
$246.81
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 3 published rates
$499.20 – $832
negotiated rate
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago 14 published rates
$519.60 – $649.50
negotiated rate
One 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.
Rush Oak Park Hospital
Oak Park 1 published rate
$644
negotiated rate
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 1 published rate
$733
negotiated rate
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield 2 published rates
$779.40 – $1,299
negotiated rate
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago 8 published rates
$887.40
negotiated rate
Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
1 published rate
$1,368
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.