Chicago → EKG (heart rhythm test)
EKG (heart rhythm test) in Chicago
Across 6 of 17 hospitals, the self-pay price runs from $26 to $74 — 2.9× the price for the same billing code.
Hospitals do not usually publish this one
EKG (heart rhythm test) is billed as a professional fee — the clinician's own charge — and hospital files cover facility charges. An empty row here is the file being complete, not the data being missing.
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics hospital.uillinois.edu · Chicago | $26 | $86 | — | D |
| Loyola University Medical Center hospital.uillinois.edu · Maywood | $26 | $86 | — | D |
| John H Stroger Jr Hospital cookcountyhealth.org · Chicago | $29 | $41 | $7–$33 | C |
| Provident Hospital of Chicago cookcountyhealth.org · Chicago | $29 | $41 | $7–$33 | C |
| Mt Sinai Hospital Medical Center sinaichicago.org · Chicago | $74 | $105 | $15–$238 | C |
| Holy Cross Hospital sinaichicago.org · Chicago | $74 | $105 | $15–$238 | D |
| Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital weisshospital.com · Chicago | not published | — | $33 | C |
| West Suburban Medical Center westsuburbanmc.com · Oak Park | not published | — | $33 | C |
| Northwest Community Hospital 1 endeavorhealth.org · Arlington Heights | not published | — | $40–$46 | C |
| Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center healthcare.ascension.org · Chicago | not published | — | $54–$81 | B |
| Presence Saint Joseph Hospital - Chicago healthcare.ascension.org · Chicago | not published | — | $54–$81 | B |
| St Alexius Medical Center healthcare.ascension.org · Hoffman Estates | not published | — | $80–$106 | F |
| Alexian Brothers Medical Center 1 healthcare.ascension.org · Elk Grove Village | not published | — | $85–$106 | F |
| Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center advocatehealth.com · Oak Lawn | not published | — | $133–$152 | C |
| Advocate Lutheran General Hospital advocatehealth.com · Park Ridge | not published | — | $135–$154 | C |
| Advocate Trinity Hospital advocatehealth.com · Chicago | not published | — | $136–$155 | C |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center advocatehealth.com · Chicago | not published | — | $137–$156 | C |
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 93000 —
Electrocardiogram (ECG). 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.