Even within the same city, hospitals can charge wildly different prices for similar care. We used Amino's Facility Cost Ratings™ — dollar signs that help employees identify cost-effective hospitals — to find the five most and least expensive hospitals in Chicago. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have the highest Facility Cost Rating™ in Chicago, averaged across all insurers. Interestingly, the second most expensive hospital has a C safety rating.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
University of Chicago Medical Center		A
Community First Medical Center		C
Kishwaukee Hospital		A
Rush Oak Park Hospital		A
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital		A

The least expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have lowest Facility Cost Rating™ in Chicago, averaged across all insurers.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
MacNeal Hospital		B
Vista Medical Center East		B
Holy Cross Hospital		D
AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center, GlenOaks		C
Little Company of Mary Hospital		D

How we rate hospitals by cost

Amino’s Facility Cost Ratings™ are an easy to understand, symbolic system of dollar signs ranging from one dollar sign denoting “inexpensive” to four dollar signs denoting “expensive.”Facility Cost Ratings™ appear on the profiles of all facilities (hospitals, imaging centers, and urgent care centers) in our Amino's healthcare transparency product.

The Facility Cost Ratings™ you see in this post are averaged across all insurers. On Amino, employees see Facility Cost Ratings™ specific to their network and plan.