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Comprehensive metabolic panel

A blood test covering kidney and liver function, blood sugar, and electrolytes.

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Hospitals answering this search, placed on a street map of the Chicago metro. 15 hospital markers placed by postcode across the metro, numbered in the same order as the list below, cheapest first: number 1 is $8.21 and number 14 is $290.70, the two ends of the scale. Each marker is a pill printing its number and the figure the hospital published, so the price reads straight off the map without any colour at all. 2 of the 16 hospitals published a figure below $8.21; the ranking places those after every figure on the scale, so they carry the last numbers and their pills a broken outline. Nothing is left out — each one is in the list below, under the number on its marker, with the figure it published. The numbered list below carries every hospital, its price, its distance and its disclosure note. The map is a visual restatement of the list under it; skip to “Every hospital in this search” for the same hospitals in the same order.

Numbers run from 1 upwards, cheapest first. Nothing here says a hospital is a better place to be treated — we hold no clinical or outcome data at all. 2 of the 16 hospitals published a figure below $8.21; the ranking places those after every figure on the scale, so they carry the last numbers and their pills a broken outline. Nothing is left out — each one is in the list below, under the number on its marker, with the figure it published.

Pill colour runs from $8.21 (the lowest price on this scale, green) to $290.70 (the highest price, red). The colour only repeats what each pill already prints — the figure itself — and says nothing about the care.

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Hospitals are placed at the centre of their postcode, not at their front door, so a marker can sit a few streets from the building it names. Distances are postcode to postcode for the same reason. Where hospitals share a postcode, their markers are fanned a street's width apart so each stays readable — the spacing is ours, not a claim about their addresses, and the distances are unaffected.

How to read a marker

  • The number is this hospital's position in the order, cheapest first, and it is the same number the list below carries. Select a marker for the hospital's name, its published figure and the way through to its prices.
  • The figure on the pill is the hospital's own lowest published figure for this search, exactly as published — the same number the list below carries, so the price reads with no colour at all.
  • Color by price tints each pill on a scale from the lowest price (green) to the highest price (red) in this result. The tint repeats what the pill already prints and carries nothing of its own; the plain pills say everything without it.
  • A dashed outline means there is something to know about what that hospital published, spelled out in the list below. A dashed marker with a letter instead of a number is a hospital we have withheld from the ranking.
  • Nothing on this map ranks hospitals by their care. We hold no clinical or outcome data about any hospital at all — only how completely each one published its prices.

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.

Every hospital in this search

  1. 1 Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
    Chicago
    $8.21 – $10.56
    negotiated rate
    Lowest price, thinner paperwork. Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital scores 0.59 against 0.80 across these results for how completely it published its file. That is about the paperwork, not the care. Open the hospital to see which parts are missing.
  2. 2 West Suburban Medical Center
    Oak Park
    $8.21 – $10.56
    negotiated rate
    Thinner paperwork than most here. West Suburban Medical Center scores 0.61 against 0.80 across these results for how completely it published its file. That is about the paperwork, not the care. Open the hospital to see which parts are missing.
  3. 3 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    $8.46 – $10.56
    negotiated rate
  4. 4 Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
    $8.46 – $11.62
    negotiated rate
  5. 5 Children's Hospital of Illinois
    Peoria Not on the map
    $9.21 – $11.69
    negotiated rate
    One file, 3 locations These prices come from a file that covers 3 locations — OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Almost Home Kids at OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois and Childrens Hospital of Illinois — 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 "OSF Saint Francis Medical Center".
  6. 6 MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
    Berwyn
    $14.04 – $236.48
    negotiated rate
  7. 7 Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital
    Sandwich
    $59.66 – $83.22
    negotiated rate
  8. 8 Rush University Medical Center
    Chicago
    $120 – $245
    negotiated rate
  9. 9 Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    Chicago
    $125.60 – $219
    negotiated rate
    One file, 2 locations These prices come from a file that covers 2 locations — Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women's 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.
  10. 10 Rush Oak Park Hospital
    Oak Park
    $133 – $234
    negotiated rate
  11. 11 Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
    Wheaton
    $188.40 – $438
    negotiated rate
  12. 12 Central DuPage Hospital
    Winfield
    $188.40 – $438
    negotiated rate
  13. 13 Copley Memorial Hospital, Inc
    $250 – $370
    negotiated rate
  14. 14 Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Chicago
    $290.70 – $379.95
    negotiated rate
  15. 15 Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
    Melrose Park
    $0.01 – $268.16
    negotiated rate
  16. 16 Loyola University Medical Center
    Maywood
    $0.01 – $160
    negotiated rate