Cash-pay prices / Labs & bloodwork
Labs & bloodwork: what Montana hospitals charge
Hospital self-pay rates for routine bloodwork, side by side.
Meanwhile, what a hospital charges
Not CoreMed prices and not clinic prices. These are what Montana hospitals ask a self-paying patient, taken from their own federally required price files. They are here as the benchmark the numbers above are worth comparing against.
| Procedure | Cheapest hospital | Most expensive | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive metabolic panel 9 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $38 | $228 | 6.1× |
| Lipid panel 9 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $22 | $197 | 8.9× |
| Hemoglobin A1C 9 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $22 | $83 | 3.8× |
| Complete blood count with differential 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $22 | $101 | 4.7× |
Self-pay prices from each hospital's machine-readable file, extracted September 2026. Hospitals publishing no separate self-pay rate are excluded, so every figure is like for like. See the full comparison.
Members usually pay less than this
Labs, X-rays and prescriptions are part of a CoreMed membership rather than a separate bill. If you're regularly paying cash for the things on this page, the membership is often the cheaper path.
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