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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Urine dipstick test without microscope exam, done by hand

CPT 81002the billing code this page is about

A manually read dipstick check of urine for things such as glucose, protein, blood, and pH, without any microscope examination of the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $18 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,672 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $19. Most fall between $7 and $35 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,672
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,672 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$5$9$18$30$51

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $51).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $5: 178 hospitals$4$5 – $7: 149 hospitals$7 – $9: 227 hospitals$7$9 – $13: 292 hospitals$13 – $17: 321 hospitals$13$17 – $24: 390 hospitals$24 – $33: 398 hospitals$24$33 – $45: 240 hospitals$45 – $62: 148 hospitals$45$62 – $84: 64 hospitals$62median $18price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,407 of 2,672 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$5178
$5$7149
$7$9227
$9$13292
$13$17321
$17$24390
$24$33398
$33$45240
$45$62148
$62$8464

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $18.

Alaska: median $39 across 15 hospitalsAK$39Maine: median $16 across 27 hospitalsME$16Vermont: median $16 across 14 hospitalsVT$16New Hampshire: median $17 across 17 hospitalsNH$17Washington: median $17 across 68 hospitalsWA$17Idaho: median $18 across 20 hospitalsID$18Montana: median $16 across 20 hospitalsMT$16North Dakota: median $20 across 25 hospitalsND$20Minnesota: median $22 across 50 hospitalsMN$22Illinois: median $25 across 108 hospitalsIL$25Wisconsin: median $22 across 81 hospitalsWI$22Michigan: median $10 across 95 hospitalsMI$10New York: median $9 across 105 hospitalsNY$9Massachusetts: median $15 across 44 hospitalsMA$15Oregon: median $20 across 43 hospitalsOR$20Nevada: median $18 across 16 hospitalsNV$18Wyoming: median $15 across 14 hospitalsWY$15South Dakota: median $39 across 19 hospitalsSD$39Iowa: median $18 across 59 hospitalsIA$18Indiana: median $10 across 82 hospitalsIN$10Ohio: median $16 across 126 hospitalsOH$16Pennsylvania: median $13 across 108 hospitalsPA$13New Jersey: median $4 across 52 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: median $18 across 19 hospitalsCT$18Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $36 across 143 hospitalsCA$36Utah: median $18 across 36 hospitalsUT$18Colorado: median $28 across 61 hospitalsCO$28Nebraska: median $22 across 57 hospitalsNE$22Missouri: median $12 across 69 hospitalsMO$12Kentucky: median $14 across 54 hospitalsKY$14West Virginia: median $13 across 40 hospitalsWV$13Virginia: median $21 across 57 hospitalsVA$21Maryland: median $9 across 17 hospitalsMD$9Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $10 across 37 hospitalsAZ$10New Mexico: median $15 across 19 hospitalsNM$15Kansas: median $15 across 76 hospitalsKS$15Arkansas: median $10 across 30 hospitalsAR$10Tennessee: median $9 across 49 hospitalsTN$9North Carolina: median $26 across 79 hospitalsNC$26South Carolina: median $29 across 45 hospitalsSC$29Oklahoma: median $12 across 64 hospitalsOK$12Louisiana: median $7 across 41 hospitalsLA$7Mississippi: median $13 across 38 hospitalsMS$13Alabama: median $12 across 30 hospitalsAL$12Georgia: median $23 across 88 hospitalsGA$23Hawaii: median $17 across 21 hospitalsHI$17Texas: median $25 across 184 hospitalsTX$25Florida: median $26 across 98 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $18. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD19$39+118%$18 – $73
Alaska AK15$39+117%$21 – $52
California CA143$36+102%$12 – $50
South Carolina SC45$29+59%$15 – $46
Colorado CO61$28+54%$11 – $62
North Carolina NC79$26+44%$11 – $37
Florida FL98$26+44%$10 – $70
Illinois IL108$25+39%$13 – $41
Texas TX184$25+39%$11 – $104
Georgia GA88$23+28%$8 – $46
Minnesota MN50$22+23%$11 – $30
Wisconsin WI81$22+23%$14 – $31
Nebraska NE57$22+22%$10 – $33
Virginia VA57$21+14%$6 – $30
North Dakota ND25$20+13%$13 – $27
Oregon OR43$20+8%$11 – $29
Iowa IA59$18+1%$9 – $26
Connecticut CT19$180%$8 – $26
Nevada NV16$180%$8 – $27
Idaho ID20$18−1%$15 – $27
Utah UT36$18−1%$16 – $21
Hawaii HI21$17−3%$16 – $24
New Hampshire NH17$17−5%$8 – $25
Washington WA68$17−7%$10 – $30
Montana MT20$16−11%$10 – $28
Vermont VT14$16−11%$6 – $32
Maine ME27$16−12%$7 – $21
Ohio OH126$16−13%$8 – $35
Kansas KS76$15−14%$7 – $25
New Mexico NM19$15−14%$11 – $41
Massachusetts MA44$15−17%$9 – $32
Wyoming WY14$15−18%$7 – $24
Kentucky KY54$14−23%$10 – $24
Mississippi MS38$13−28%$5 – $23
Pennsylvania PA108$13−28%$4 – $27
West Virginia WV40$13−31%$8 – $16
Alabama AL30$12−33%$7 – $30
Missouri MO69$12−34%$9 – $27
Oklahoma OK64$12−36%$6 – $22
Indiana IN82$10−42%$6 – $22
Michigan MI95$10−43%$5 – $25
Arizona AZ37$10−44%$6 – $87
Arkansas AR30$10−47%$5 – $23
Maryland MD17$9−51%$7 – $13
New York NY105$9−52%$4 – $24
Tennessee TN49$9−52%$4 – $23
Louisiana LA41$7−62%$3 – $16
New Jersey NJ52$4−78%$4 – $5
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $18.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,890$18$7 – $37
Children’s61$22$11 – $36
Critical access712$18$8 – $30
Ownership
For-profit340$25$9 – $98
Government476$17$8 – $30
Non-profit1,847$17$7 – $32
System affiliation
Part of a system2,191$18$7 – $36
Independent481$16$8 – $30

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$30
Median cash price$18
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,823 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $19 and the average of the middle 60% is $20; most fall between $9 and $36.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,823 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$5$10$19$32$50

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $50).

Of the 2,015 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,823 gave a usable cash price; 108 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,672 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,921 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,672
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here147
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,921

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Nonoperative urinary system measurements family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Urnls Dip Stick/Tablet Rgnt Non-Auto W/O Micrscp.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Urine dipstick test without microscope exam, done by hand (CPT 81002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81002-urine-dipstick-test-without-microscope-exam-done-by-hand