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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.

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Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
6 published rates Lowest
$368.12 – $828.27
negotiated rate
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
3 published rates
$373.86 – $1,532
negotiated rate
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL
3 published rates
$373.86 – $1,800
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 GlenOaks
Glendale Heights 1 published rate
$377.60
negotiated rate
UChicago Medicine Adventhealth Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook 1 published rate
$377.60
negotiated rate
Provident Hospital Cook County
Chicago 4 published rates
$428.34 – $799.72
negotiated rate
Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago 4 published rates
$467.91
negotiated rate
West Suburban Medical Center
Oak Park 4 published rates
$467.91
negotiated rate
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey 1 published rate
$1,104.36
negotiated rate
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago 1 published rate
$1,104.36
negotiated rate
One file, 3 locations These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — The University of Chicago Medical Center, UChicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery and UChicago Medicine Comer Childrens 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. The file's own header names it "The University of Chicago Medical Center".
Advocate Condell Medical Center
Libertyville 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Park Ridge 8 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate South Suburban Hospital
Hazel Crest 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Park Ridge
Park Ridge 8 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Trinity Hospital
Chicago 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Childrens Hospital - Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Elgin 4 published rates
$1,276
negotiated rate
Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
5 published rates
$1,323 – $7,074.60
negotiated rate
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 4 published rates
$1,379 – $6,454.35
negotiated rate
Rush Oak Park Hospital
Oak Park 4 published rates
$1,379 – $6,197.10
negotiated rate
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago 2 published rates
$1,554 – $1,669
negotiated rate
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Melrose Park 8 published rates
$1,858 – $2,026
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 8 published rates
$1,858 – $1,938
negotiated rate
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood 8 published rates
$3,036 – $3,310
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital
Palos Heights 2 published rates
$7,693
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
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield 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
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago 16 published rates
$7,693
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.

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.