Columbus → Basic metabolic panel (blood test)
Basic metabolic panel (blood test) in Columbus
Across 6 of 13 hospitals, the self-pay price runs from $36 to $66 — 1.8× the price for the same billing code.
For scale: Medicare’s lab fee schedule pays $8.46 for this code, nationwide (2026).
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctors Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $36 | $56 | $8–$32 | C |
| Grant Medical Center OhioHealth · Columbus | $36 | $56 | $8–$32 | C |
| Riverside Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $36 | $56 | $8–$32 | C |
| Dublin Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Dublin | $36 | $56 | $8–$32 | C |
| Mount Carmel St. Ann's mountcarmelhealth.com · Westerville | $66–$16,322 varies | $101 | $7–$7,902 | C |
| Mount Carmel East mountcarmelhealth.com · Columbus | $66–$640 varies | $101 | $7–$479 | C |
| Mount Carmel Grove City Mount Carmel Health System (Trinity Health) · Grove City | $66–$1,537 varies | $101 | $7–$1,347 | C |
| Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital mountcarmelhealth.com · New Albany | $66–$54,868 varies | $101 | $7–$63,065 | C |
| Diley Ridge Medical Center mountcarmelhealth.com · Canal Winchester | $66 | $101 | $7–$101 | C |
| Mount Carmel Dublin mountcarmelhealth.com · Dublin | $66 | $101 | $7–$101 | C |
| Nationwide Children's Hospital nationwidechildrens.org · Columbus | $94–$126 varies | $140 | $25–$137 | C |
| Ohio State University Hospitals wexnermedical.osu.edu · Columbus | not published | $188 | $8–$188 | F |
| James Cancer Hospital OSU Wexner Medical Center · Columbus | not published | $188 | $41–$175 | F |
What these three numbers mean
Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.
Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →
Billing code CPT 80048 —
Basic metabolic panel. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's
own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.