procedure code 49083 — price comparison in Chicago
Billing code 49083 · 3 hospitals publishing rates
Metro proxy notice: the price-transparency
files this site reads carry each hospital's STATE, not its city. "Chicago"
here means every hospital publishing prices in IL, not only
hospitals within Chicago city limits.
Median negotiated rates run from $871 to
$1,355. That is a 1.6x difference between the cheapest and the most expensive hospital shown here.
Hospital
Median rate
vs Medicare
South Shore Hospital
$871
4.7x
MaineHealth
$1,076
5.8x
MaineHealth
$1,355
7.3x
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