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Brain MRI

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

47 hospitals · 67 published rates Cheapest $195.30 · dearest $7,315

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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Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood 1 published rate
$1,204.28
cash price
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange
La Grange 1 published rate
$1,350
cash price
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
Hinsdale 1 published rate
$1,350
cash price
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks
Glendale Heights 1 published rate
$1,350
cash price
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook 1 published rate
$1,350
cash price
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
1 published rate
$1,404.15
cash price
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn 2 published rates
$1,915
cash price
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn 2 published rates
$1,915
cash price
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago 2 published rates
$2,043.51
cash price
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago 2 published rates
$2,125
cash price
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington 2 published rates
$2,240
cash price
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 1 published rate
$2,390.50
cash price
Advocate South Suburban Hospital
Hazel Crest 2 published rates
$2,575
cash price
Advocate Trinity Hospital
Chicago 2 published rates
$2,575
cash price
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Park Ridge 2 published rates
$2,650
cash price
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
Park Ridge 2 published rates
$2,650
cash price
Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
1 published rate
$2,721
cash price
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Elgin 2 published rates
$2,785
cash price
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago 2 published rates
$4,570.30
cash price
Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital
Chicago 1 published rate
$4,990
cash price
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
Sandwich 1 published rate
$5,385.10
cash price
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 1 published rate
$5,385.10
cash price
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
DeKalb 1 published rate
$5,385.10
cash price
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Geneva 1 published rate
$5,385.10
cash price
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey 1 published rate
$6,926
cash price
Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital
Elmhurst 1 published rate
$7,315
cash price

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.

4 hospitals withheld

These publish prices for this service, but what they published is too incomplete for us to line up fairly against the rest. We list them so you know they exist, and each one opens to its full prices and the exact parts of its disclosure that are missing — this is about their paperwork, not their care. We hold no clinical or outcome data about any hospital.