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Comprehensive metabolic panel

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

14 hospitals · 203 published rates Cheapest $8.21 · dearest $290.70

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.

2 published figures 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.

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Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
8 published rates
$8.46 – $11.62
negotiated rate
MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 6 published rates
$14.04 – $236.48
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 28 published rates
$188.40 – $438
negotiated rate

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.