Bill of Health

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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 Meridian (Medicaid) has negotiated. Ranges cover that insurer's different plans at the same hospital.

We priced

Brain MRI

A detailed scan of the brain using a magnetic field. Often used to investigate headaches, dizziness, or neurological symptoms.

15 hospitals · 67 published rates Cheapest $296.13 · dearest $392.55

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
4 published rates Lowest
$296.13 – $6,149.37
negotiated rate
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL
4 published rates
$296.13 – $6,149.37
negotiated rate
Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
3 published rates
$352.85 – $5,442
negotiated rate
Rush Oak Park Hospital
Oak Park 3 published rates
$352.85 – $4,767
negotiated rate
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago 2 published rates
$372.28
negotiated rate
West Suburban Medical Center
Oak Park 2 published rates
$372.28
negotiated rate
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park 16 published rates
$390.89 – $431.84
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 12 published rates
$390.89 – $428.12
negotiated rate
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood 12 published rates
$390.89 – $574.38
negotiated rate
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
2 published rates
$390.89
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange
La Grange 1 published rate
$392.55
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
Hinsdale 1 published rate
$392.55
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks
Glendale Heights 1 published rate
$392.55
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook 1 published rate
$392.55
negotiated rate
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 3 published rates
$392.55 – $4,781
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.