Bill of Health

We priced

Comprehensive metabolic panel

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

3 hospitals · 12 published rates Cheapest $8.88 · dearest $12.08

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.

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Why a range? One insurer publishes different rates for different plans at the same hospital — a PPO and an HMO under the same name can differ several times over. We show what the hospital published rather than collapsing it into a single number that might not be yours.