Bill of Health

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Any insurance Cash / no insurance Aetna Aetna Better Health of Illinois (Medicaid) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Blue Cross Community Health Plans (Medicaid) Cigna CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) Humana Illinois Medicaid (fee-for-service) Medicare (fee-for-service) Meridian (Medicaid) Molina Healthcare (Medicaid) UnitedHealthcare

Showing rates CountyCare (Cook County Health Medicaid) has negotiated. Ranges cover that insurer's different plans at the same hospital.

We priced

Comprehensive metabolic panel

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

2 hospitals · 9 published rates Cheapest $9.19 · dearest $21.67

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.

Everything published Only figures that look like prices

Nothing was excluded: none of the figures published here behave like a placeholder rather than a price.

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Rush University Medical Center
Chicago 2 published rates Lowest
$9.19
negotiated rate
Unusual for this billing code 30 of the 48 hospitals published between $9.50 and $10.56.
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield 7 published rates
$21.67 – $30.22
negotiated rate
Unusual for this billing code 32 of the 48 hospitals published between $7.61 and $8.71.

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.

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.