Itemized  ·  Best value  ·  Office visit, established patient, level 4 in Chicago

Best-value hospitals for office visit, established patient, level 4 in Chicago.

Ranked on a composite of cash-pay price (low is good) and CMS Care Compare rating (high is good). The top of this list is where price and quality both work in your favor. CPT code 99214.

1
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
5/5 CMS
$108
2
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
5/5 CMS
$165
3
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital
Chicago, IL
3/5 CMS
$160
4
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Chicago, IL
3/5 CMS
$178
5
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
4/5 CMS
$197
6
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, IL
3/5 CMS
$178

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How "best value" is computed.

Each hospital gets two ranks: one by cash-pay price (cheapest = rank 1) and one by CMS overall rating (highest = rank 1). The two are summed; the lowest sum is the best value. Ties broken by price.

Hospitals without a published CMS rating (specialty, pediatric, cancer-only) are excluded from this ranking because the composite would be meaningless. They show up on the procedure overview page instead.

This is one heuristic. Some patients reasonably weight rating heavier than price, others the reverse. The comparison tool lets you sort by price-only, rating-only, or this same composite, and add your insurance for plan-specific numbers.