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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.

37 hospitals · 145 published rates Cheapest $368.12 · dearest $7,693

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.

Nothing was excluded: none of the figures published here behave like a placeholder rather than a price.

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Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
6 published rates Lowest
$368.12 – $828.27
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange
La Grange 1 published rate
$377.60
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale
Hinsdale 1 published rate
$377.60
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook 1 published rate
$377.60
negotiated rate
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
Park Ridge 8 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 8 published rates
$1,858 – $1,938
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
Sandwich 1 published rate
$7,693
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 1 published rate
$7,693
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital
DeKalb 2 published rates
$7,693
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Geneva 1 published rate
$7,693
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.