CostGrade

All published prices at Northwestern Medical Center Inc

39 procedures, each showing what the hospital billed, what that care was actually paid for, and how the charge compares with the national middle for the same coded work.

B
Procedure Patients Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

262 $7,348 $866 -37%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit

92 $41,290 $5,983 -34%
Level 2 Urology and Related Services

APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit

92 $429 $263 -86%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

71 $24,831 $22,714 -62%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

59 $21,090 $15,361 -51%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit

57 $23,796 $3,044 -40%
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit

41 $12,200 $1,249 -40%
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

37 $22,210 $14,905 -54%
Pneumonia (severe)

MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay

37 $21,862 $15,154 -53%
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

APC 5361 · Hospital outpatient visit

34 $14,856 $2,975 -58%
Sepsis (without major complications)

MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay

30 $17,790 $11,778 -55%
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit

30 $4,124 $814 -63%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services

APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit

28 $4,056 $852 -69%
Level 1 Abdominal/peritoneal/biliary and Related Procedures

APC 5341 · Hospital outpatient visit

26 $10,738 $1,302 -54%
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)

MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay

25 $18,247 $11,605 -56%
Respiratory Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay

24 $20,390 $19,186 -63%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit

24 $3,794 $633 -62%
Heart Attack (with complications)

MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay

23 $10,585 $10,455 -76%
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5073 · Hospital outpatient visit

21 $7,601 $1,293 -57%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit

21 $3,422 $866 -71%
Level 2 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5492 · Hospital outpatient visit

20 $8,523 $2,071 -59%
Stroke (with complications)

MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay

19 $22,117 $11,632 -51%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications

MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay

18 $17,449 $9,132 -44%
Kidney Failure (with complications)

MS-DRG 683 · Inpatient stay

18 $13,821 $10,270 -58%
Hip or Thigh Bone Surgery (with complications)

MS-DRG 481 · Inpatient stay

17 $38,681 $23,722 -54%
COPD (severe)

MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay

15 $16,756 $12,049 -60%
Heart Attack (severe)

MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay

15 $17,922 $18,074 -71%
Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Complications

MS-DRG 330 · Inpatient stay

15 $50,027 $27,252 -50%
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay

15 $14,683 $9,243 -51%
Level 4 Urology and Related Services

APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit

15 $9,346 $1,406 -55%
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures

APC 5414 · Hospital outpatient visit

15 $8,012 $1,321 -56%
Pneumonia (with complications)

MS-DRG 194 · Inpatient stay

14 $15,768 $9,422 -50%
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay

14 $18,420 $9,003 -43%
Level 4 ENT Procedures

APC 5164 · Hospital outpatient visit

14 $4,744 $1,524 -75%
Irregular Heartbeat (severe)

MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay

13 $19,141 $13,900 -60%
Irregular Heartbeat (with complications)

MS-DRG 309 · Inpatient stay

11 $13,862 $8,289 -55%
Skin Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay

11 $16,090 $10,140 -47%
Level 5 Urology and Related Services

APC 5375 · Hospital outpatient visit

11 $13,217 $2,111 -52%
Level 1 Nerve Procedures

APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit

11 $15,671 $447 +38%

These figures are averages across this hospital's Medicare patients in the most recent federal data year. They are not a quote and not your bill. For your own case, ask the hospital for a written good-faith estimate and check its published machine-readable price file.