Published prices
Comprehensive metabolic panel
A blood test covering kidney and liver function, blood sugar, and electrolytes.
Negotiated rates published
$2.37 – $481
across 40 hospitals in the Chicago metro. Lowest at Provident Hospital Cook County, highest at Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc. Both are figures those hospitals published themselves — nothing here is averaged, estimated or rounded.
Every figure above comes from the 40 hospitals listed below and from the 2 billing codes hospitals use for it. Each is that hospital's own published figure.
Sorted cheapest first. A published figure that behaves like a placeholder rather than a real price — one cent, or a figure orders of magnitude below what other hospitals publish for the same billing code — never leads this order. It stays listed, after every other figure, ordered by its own amount among the others like it.
1 published figure excluded: each is at least three orders of magnitude below what its peers publish for the same billing code, which this product treats as a placeholder rather than a real price. Prices that are merely unusual — not placeholders — are never excluded by this filter; ask without plausibleOnly to see them.
Comparisons against other hospitals were computed on 2 November 2026. Each price carries its own fetch date; a comparison is a snapshot of what other hospitals had published when it ran, not a standing fact.
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