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Every published price

University of Chicago Medical Center

for Comprehensive metabolic panel · Chicago 60637

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One file, 3 locations. These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — The University of Chicago Medical Center, UChicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery and UChicago Medicine Comer Childrens Hospital — and the file does not say which of them any price belongs to. Every figure here is that whole file's rather than this one address's. The file's own header names it "The University of Chicago Medical Center".

The facilities this file names, exactly as it names them: The University of Chicago Medical Center · UChicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery · UChicago Medicine Comer Childrens Hospital.

Which of these is yours you said: Aetna
List price
The "gross charge" — the sticker price almost nobody actually pays. Posted under 4 line items for this procedure, at different amounts.
$81 – $496
Cash price
What this hospital says it charges someone paying without insurance.Posted under 4 line items for this procedure, at different amounts.
$81 – $496
Aetna Yours
4 rates this hospital published for Aetna. Which one is yours depends on your plan.
$8.46 – $24.25
Every other insurer
12 rates across 5 insurers that are not yours. Context, not your price.
$9.73 – $105.80

The same procedure, at this one hospital, ranges from $8.46 to $105.80. That is not an error, and it is not our arithmetic — it is what the hospital published.

Two things are happening. Rates differ between insurers and plans, as you would expect — and the same plan also appears more than once at different prices. Each rate below is shown with the hospital's own line-item description, so you can read how its file labels them. The file does not say which one you would be billed under, so we show every figure rather than pick one.

Your insurer

What Aetna pays here

Every rate this hospital published under a name we recognise as Aetna, cheapest first, grouped by plan and then by the hospital's own line item. Which one is yours depends on your plan and on which line item this hospital bills the service under — the file does not know which card you carry, and does not say which line item it would use.

Aetna $8.46 – $24.25 2.9×
Plans, line items and rates for Aetna
Medicare Managed Care Plan Metabolic panel total ca $8.46
Comprehen metabolic panel $10.56
Hmo/Ppo Metabolic panel total ca $19.43
Comprehen metabolic panel $24.25

Not yours

Every other insurer

These belong to other insurers. None of them is your price. They are here so you can see the whole file rather than only the part we picked.

Oscar $9.73 – $12.14
Plans, line items and rates for Oscar
All Commercial Plans Metabolic panel total ca $9.73
Comprehen metabolic panel $12.14
Ambetter $12.27 – $15.31
Plans, line items and rates for Ambetter
Exchange Metabolic panel total ca $12.27
Comprehen metabolic panel $15.31
Cigna $17.82 – $105.80 5.9×
Plans, line items and rates for Cigna
One Health Hmo Metabolic panel total ca $17.82
Comprehen metabolic panel $22.28
Hmo/Ppo Metabolic panel total ca $85.33
Comprehen metabolic panel $105.80
Unitedhealthcare $29.61 – $36.96
Plans, line items and rates for Unitedhealthcare
All Commercial Plans Metabolic panel total ca $29.61
Comprehen metabolic panel $36.96
Bcbs $38.17 – $49.91
Plans, line items and rates for Bcbs
Ppo Metabolic panel total ca $38.17
Comprehen metabolic panel $49.91

How complete the paperwork is

What University of Chicago Medical Center published — and what it left out

Federal law tells hospitals what to publish. This score is our reading of how much of that University of Chicago Medical Center actually did publish. It is a measure of their paperwork, not their care. We hold no clinical, safety, or outcome data about any hospital, and nothing here should be read as a comment on the medicine.

0.80/ 1.00

At or above our 0.50 threshold, so this hospital appears in comparisons. A passing score means the file is complete enough to compare, not that it is complete.

0.00 Publishing threshold 0.50 1.00

The four parts of University of Chicago Medical Center's disclosure-completeness score, each with its weight, its value, and what was counted.
What we checked Weight Scored Added
How many common services carry a price Partial credit 53 of 70 CMS shoppable services have an unflagged gross or cash dollar amount. 0.40 0.76 0.30
How often the price is a dollar amount Partial credit 66052 of 100333 negotiated rates are dollar amounts rather than formulas. 0.25 0.66 0.17
How recently the file was updated Full credit Current: file states last_updated_on 2026-04-01 (196 days old). 0.20 1.00 0.20
How many rows are usable figures Near full credit 34281 of 284005 rows are quality-flagged (placeholder, zero, blank, or algorithm-only). 0.15 0.88 0.13
Total 0.80

Each part is scored from 0 to 1 and multiplied by its weight; the four add up to the total above. Every count in the right-hand column came from the hospital's own file — we did not estimate, impute, or fill a gap on their behalf. Where the file is thin, the score is thin, and the gap belongs to the publisher.

Where these numbers came from

Provenance

Every figure above was read from a file this hospital publishes because federal law requires it. Nothing here is estimated, modelled, or supplied by us.

https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/unichicagomc-81nbqnb3/media/files/pricing-transparency/2026/363488183_the-university-of-chicago-medical-center_standardcharges.json
Hospital states last updated 1 Apr 2026 We fetched it 6 Aug 2026

These are published prices, not a quote and not a bill. What you owe depends on your own plan, your deductible, and what actually happens during your care.