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Advocate Christ Medical Center vs Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital.

Side-by-side prices for 29 procedures both hospitals publish, plus CMS quality ratings and metro context. Pulled from each hospital's federally-mandated price transparency file. Advocate Christ Medical Center is cheaper on more procedures (22 vs 3).

Advocate Christ Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Advocate Aurora
3/5 CMS
Cheaper on 22 of 29 procedures
vs.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
Lurie Children's
Cheaper on 3 of 29 procedures

Head-to-head, by procedure.

Procedure Advocate Ann Cheaper
Brain MRI without contrast $1,210 $3,391 Advocate ↓
Brain MRI with and without contrast $1,915 $4,570 Advocate ↓
Lumbar spine MRI without contrast $1,210 $3,564 Advocate ↓
Knee/lower-extremity MRI without contrast $1,210 $3,403 Advocate ↓
CT abdomen and pelvis with contrast $1,770 $4,478 Advocate ↓
Abdominal ultrasound, complete $675 $1,645 Advocate ↓
DXA bone density scan $395 $683 Advocate ↓
Chest X-ray, single view $135 $433 Advocate ↓
Comprehensive metabolic panel $108 $313 Advocate ↓
Lipid panel $83 $282 Advocate ↓
CBC with differential $43 $156 Advocate ↓
TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) $25 $286 Advocate ↓
Hemoglobin A1c $53 $201 Advocate ↓
Urinalysis $25 $18 Ann ↓
Colonoscopy, diagnostic — $1,680 tie
Colonoscopy with polyp removal — $691 tie
Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy — $2,269 tie
Echocardiogram, complete with Doppler $990 $4,318 Advocate ↓
Office visit, established patient, level 3 $148 $311 Advocate ↓
Office visit, established patient, level 4 $178 $438 Advocate ↓
Lumbar epidural steroid injection $1,505 $1,400 Ann ↓
Polysomnography (sleep study) $2,105 $4,920 Advocate ↓
Thyroid ultrasound $615 $1,357 Advocate ↓
New patient office visit, level 3 $148 $385 Advocate ↓
New patient office visit, level 4 $178 $576 Advocate ↓
Ureteroscopy with lithotripsy (kidney stone) — $182 tie
Prostate biopsy $1,980 $1,783 Ann ↓
Carotid duplex ultrasound $905 $2,106 Advocate ↓
Psychotherapy, 45 minutes $268 $345 Advocate ↓

Patient experience.

CMS HCAHPS patient survey, period ending 03/31/2025. Bold = higher score.

Measure Advocate Ann
HCAHPS overall star rating 3/5 —
Would definitely recommend 60% —
Hospital rating 9 or 10 of 10 61% —
Nurses always communicated well 77% —
Doctors always communicated well 74% —
Given clear info about recovery 87% —
Room and bathroom always clean 59% —
Staff always explained meds 57% —
Quiet at night, always 48% —

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How to read this comparison.

The cash-pay price is what an uninsured patient would be charged at each hospital. It's the cleanest apples-to-apples comparison because it doesn't depend on your insurance plan.

The CMS rating is the federal quality composite, built from ~50 measures spanning safety, mortality, readmission, patient experience, and timeliness. A 5-star hospital may not be the best at every procedure, and a 3-star hospital can have a strong specific service line. Treat the rating as one input, not the answer.

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