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Draining an abscess in Chicago
We are still reading 1 price file in Chicago. Prices appear here as they finish — nothing below means we have not read them yet, not that the hospitals publish nothing.
These prices are not directly comparable
Hospitals bill this one at different levels. One may publish a single operating-room line while another publishes the whole surgical episode — both honest, both under the same billing code. So the figures below are what each hospital publishes, not a like-for-like comparison, and we do not compute a "cheapest" from them. Why →
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital weisshospital.com · Chicago | $67–$67 varies | $198 | $33–$818 | C |
| Presence Saint Joseph Hospital - Chicago healthcare.ascension.org · Chicago | $103 | $311 | $146–$336 | B |
| Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center healthcare.ascension.org · Chicago | $103 | $311 | $146–$336 | B |
| Uchicago Medicine Adventhealth La Grange uchicagomedicineadventhealth.org · La Grange | $105 | $420 | $210–$2,414 | C |
| Osf Little Company of Mary Medical Center osfhealthcare.org · Evergreen Park | $173–$710 varies | $693 | $215–$1,094 | D |
| University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics hospital.uillinois.edu · Chicago | $180–$410 varies | $585 | — | D |
| Loyola University Medical Center hospital.uillinois.edu · Maywood | $180–$410 varies | $585 | — | D |
| Mt Sinai Hospital Medical Center sinaichicago.org · Chicago | $181–$561 varies | $258 | $103–$3,796 | C |
| Holy Cross Hospital sinaichicago.org · Chicago | $181–$561 varies | $258 | $116–$3,615 | D |
| John H Stroger Jr Hospital cookcountyhealth.org · Chicago | $187 | $267 | $60–$214 | C |
| Provident Hospital of Chicago cookcountyhealth.org · Chicago | $187 | $267 | $60–$214 | C |
| West Suburban Medical Center westsuburbanmc.com · Oak Park | $193 | $568 | $84–$818 | C |
| Community First Medical Center cfmedicalcenter.com · Chicago | $296 | $592 | $162–$592 | B |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago luriechildrens.org · Chicago | $297 | $424 | $72–$14,756 | B |
| Northwest Community Hospital 1 endeavorhealth.org · Arlington Heights | $375–$536 varies | $536 | $187–$1,017 | C |
| Rush Oak Park Hospital rush.edu · Oak Park | $430 | $861 | $143–$1,119 | B |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital advocatehealth.com · Chicago | $480 | $960 | $84–$768 | C |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center advocatehealth.com · Chicago | $480 | $960 | $84–$810 | C |
| Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center advocatehealth.com · Oak Lawn | $480 | $960 | $84–$775 | C |
| Advocate Lutheran General Hospital advocatehealth.com · Park Ridge | $480 | $960 | $84–$854 | C |
| St Bernard Hospital stbh.org · Chicago | $506 | $506 | $688 | C |
| Jackson Park Hospital jacksonparkhospital.org · Chicago | $515–$523 varies | $644 | — | B |
| Rush University Medical Center rush.edu · Chicago | $548 | $1,096 | $207–$1,480 | A |
| The University of Chicago Medical Center uchicagomedicine.org · Chicago | $798–$2,064 varies | $798 | $215–$3,399 | C |
| Shriners Hospital for Children shrinerschildrens.org · Chicago | $920–$6,627 varies | $920 | $0–$1,794 | C |
| Palos Community Hospital nm.org · Palos Heights | $954 | $1,363 | $218–$1,363 | C |
| Ingalls Memorial Hospital uchicagomedicine.org · Harvey | $1,324 | $1,324 | $215–$3,170 | B |
| St Alexius Medical Center healthcare.ascension.org · Hoffman Estates | not published | — | $197–$367 | F |
What these three numbers mean
Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.
Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →
Billing code CPT 10060 —
Incision & drainage of abscess. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's
own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.