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Comprehensive metabolic panel

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

40 hospitals · 443 published rates Cheapest $2.37 · dearest $314

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.

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MacNeal Hospital Gottlieb Community Health Services Corporation
Berwyn 12 published rates
$8.46 – $10.56
negotiated rate
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago (Presence Chicago Hospital Network)
22 published rates
$8.46 – $14.26
negotiated rate
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago 8 published rates
$84 – $92
negotiated rate
Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Wheaton 7 published rates
$314 – $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.