Cash-pay prices / Labs & bloodwork

Labs & bloodwork: Montana cash prices

Routine and specialty testing without a surprise bill.

Cash prices for this category are being collected from participating Montana facilities. Ask us what a specific procedure costs and we will find out for you.

Procedures in this category

ProcedureTypical cash priceWhere
Comprehensive metabolic panelAsk usNot listed yet
Lipid panelAsk usNot listed yet
A1CAsk usNot listed yet
Thyroid panelAsk usNot listed yet
CBCAsk usNot listed yet

Prices vary by clinic and are set by the provider, not by CoreMed. Listing does not imply a CoreMed membership discount unless stated.

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 6 hospitals publishing a self-pay price $48 $228 4.7×
Lipid panel 5 hospitals publishing a self-pay price $61 $197 3.2×
Haemoglobin A1C 6 hospitals publishing a self-pay price $22 $83 3.8×
Complete blood count with differential 7 hospitals publishing a self-pay price $22 $101 4.7×

Self-pay prices from each hospital's machine-readable file, extracted August 2026. Hospitals publishing no separate self-pay rate are excluded, so every figure is like for like. See the full comparison.

What this costs around Montana

Blood tests are the widest price gap in American healthcare and the easiest to check. The same panel can be a few dollars or a few hundred depending only on where it is drawn. These are prices other providers publish on their own websites. These are not CoreMed prices and not rates CoreMed has negotiated. Every one links to where we found it.

Comprehensive metabolic panel

WhereWhat kind of price Published price
PearlMed DPC, Billings Published member price, part of a $18–$32 panel bundle Member at-cost $4
Labcorp OnDemand national price, not Montana-specific Draw sites in Billings and Missoula only Order it yourself $49
Quest Consumer national price, not Montana-specific $49 plus a $6 physician service fee Order it yourself $55
Lab Montana, Flathead Valley Walk-in, no order needed $95

Lipid panel

WhereWhat kind of price Published price
PearlMed DPC, Billings Member at-cost $4
Labcorp OnDemand national price, not Montana-specific Order it yourself $59
Quest Consumer national price, not Montana-specific $59 plus a $6 physician service fee Order it yourself $65
Lab Montana, Flathead Valley Walk-in, no order needed $85

Haemoglobin A1C

WhereWhat kind of price Published price
PearlMed DPC, Billings Member at-cost $3
Labcorp OnDemand national price, not Montana-specific Order it yourself $39
Quest Consumer national price, not Montana-specific $39 plus a $6 physician service fee Order it yourself $45
Lab Montana, Flathead Valley Walk-in, no order needed $70

Complete blood count

WhereWhat kind of price Published price
PearlMed DPC, Billings Member at-cost $3
Labcorp OnDemand national price, not Montana-specific Order it yourself $29
Quest Consumer national price, not Montana-specific $29 plus a $6 physician service fee Order it yourself $35
Lab Montana, Flathead Valley Walk-in, no order needed $75

Collected August 2026 from each provider's own website. Prices change and some carry conditions, so follow the link and check before you rely on one. Where a provider publishes no price, we say so rather than estimating.

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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