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Illinois Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Illinois — drawn from 80 hospitals' machine-readable files. Figures are medians with robust 10th–90th-percentile ranges across hospitals in the state.

The same procedure, wildly different prices

Even within Illinois, the negotiated price at a pricier hospital can be many times what a cheaper one charges — for the same service.

ProcedureTypical range (10th–90th pct)MedianHospitals
Allergy Skin Testing$14 – $1,538$92049
IUD Insertion$113 – $4,562$32357
Anesthesia for Screening Colonoscopy$21 – $619$306
Urinalysis with Microscopy$3 – $88$1073
Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy (Under Age 12)$423 – $9,096$6,34450
Newborn Circumcision$223 – $4,775$2,24158
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel$11 – $206$2373
Anesthesia for Upper Endoscopy$25 – $476$306

Cash can beat the list price

The “gross” charge is the hospital's list price; the cash price is what many will accept from a self-pay patient. For these procedures in Illinois, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$3,463$8,379
Diagnostic Colonoscopy$1,272$2,889
EKG (Electrocardiogram, 12-lead)$42$95
ACL Reconstruction (Arthroscopic)$4,423$9,980
Total Hip Replacement$5,006$11,243
Knee Arthroscopy with Meniscectomy$2,674$5,428

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Illinois

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$27,27754
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$18,79048
Cervical Spinal Fusion (Anterior)$13,81545
Total Hip Replacement$13,75853
Total Knee Replacement$13,75853
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$12,41859

Medians and percentiles are computed across each hospital's representative facility price, from its latest machine-readable file. See methodology for how prices are derived.

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