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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Urine pregnancy test

CPT 81025the billing code this page is about

A urine test for the pregnancy hormone hCG, read by visual color change on the test device.

Hospitals typically charge $45 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,293 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $19 and $95 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,293
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 3,293 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
$12$22$45$85$151

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $151).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 190 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 196 hospitals$17 – $23: 338 hospitals$17$23 – $32: 373 hospitals$32 – $45: 419 hospitals$32$45 – $63: 429 hospitals$63 – $88: 434 hospitals$63$88 – $123: 331 hospitals$123 – $171: 150 hospitals$123$171 – $238: 122 hospitals$171median $45price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,982 of 3,293 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12190
$12$17196
$17$23338
$23$32373
$32$45419
$45$63429
$63$88434
$88$123331
$123$171150
$171$238122

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $45.

Alaska: median $89 across 18 hospitalsAK$89Maine: median $29 across 28 hospitalsME$29Vermont: median $32 across 14 hospitalsVT$32New Hampshire: median $32 across 24 hospitalsNH$32Washington: median $44 across 77 hospitalsWA$44Idaho: median $35 across 23 hospitalsID$35Montana: median $45 across 31 hospitalsMT$45North Dakota: median $54 across 31 hospitalsND$54Minnesota: median $40 across 94 hospitalsMN$40Illinois: median $83 across 137 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $58 across 104 hospitalsWI$58Michigan: median $21 across 100 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $25 across 119 hospitalsNY$25Massachusetts: median $43 across 51 hospitalsMA$43Oregon: median $42 across 49 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: median $55 across 20 hospitalsNV$55Wyoming: median $38 across 16 hospitalsWY$38South Dakota: median $126 across 41 hospitalsSD$126Iowa: median $41 across 87 hospitalsIA$41Indiana: median $35 across 96 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $46 across 137 hospitalsOH$46Pennsylvania: median $27 across 120 hospitalsPA$27New Jersey: median $10 across 56 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $37 across 22 hospitalsCT$37Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $88 across 165 hospitalsCA$88Utah: median $31 across 42 hospitalsUT$31Colorado: median $55 across 71 hospitalsCO$55Nebraska: median $65 across 82 hospitalsNE$65Missouri: median $51 across 78 hospitalsMO$51Kentucky: median $42 across 62 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $22 across 44 hospitalsWV$22Virginia: median $77 across 72 hospitalsVA$77Maryland: median $25 across 36 hospitalsMD$25Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $26 across 41 hospitalsAZ$26New Mexico: median $32 across 29 hospitalsNM$32Kansas: median $35 across 88 hospitalsKS$35Arkansas: median $19 across 38 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $38 across 77 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $72 across 89 hospitalsNC$72South Carolina: median $89 across 53 hospitalsSC$89Oklahoma: median $28 across 64 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: median $21 across 54 hospitalsLA$21Mississippi: median $33 across 53 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: median $37 across 43 hospitalsAL$37Georgia: median $46 across 98 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: median $43 across 21 hospitalsHI$43Texas: median $62 across 235 hospitalsTX$62Florida: median $125 across 148 hospitalsFL$125
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $45. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$126+181%$78 – $167
Florida FL148$125+180%$19 – $436
South Carolina SC53$89+99%$36 – $115
Alaska AK18$89+98%$65 – $128
California CA165$88+96%$28 – $177
Illinois IL137$83+85%$37 – $129
Virginia VA72$77+71%$47 – $169
North Carolina NC89$72+60%$38 – $106
Nebraska NE82$65+46%$27 – $104
Texas TX235$62+39%$16 – $190
Wisconsin WI104$58+30%$40 – $72
Nevada NV20$55+22%$26 – $104
Colorado CO71$55+22%$27 – $85
North Dakota ND31$54+21%$40 – $62
Missouri MO78$51+13%$19 – $79
Georgia GA98$46+3%$20 – $115
Ohio OH137$46+1%$25 – $70
Montana MT31$450%$23 – $62
Washington WA77$44−2%$20 – $63
Hawaii HI21$43−4%$25 – $58
Massachusetts MA51$43−4%$23 – $75
Oregon OR49$42−7%$18 – $64
Kentucky KY62$42−7%$15 – $96
Iowa IA87$41−9%$26 – $63
Minnesota MN94$40−10%$24 – $74
Tennessee TN77$38−16%$14 – $85
Wyoming WY16$38−16%$28 – $64
Connecticut CT22$37−17%$27 – $45
Alabama AL43$37−18%$19 – $99
Indiana IN96$35−21%$14 – $79
Idaho ID23$35−22%$25 – $45
Kansas KS88$35−22%$20 – $58
Mississippi MS53$33−26%$14 – $68
New Mexico NM29$32−28%$15 – $78
Vermont VT14$32−29%$19 – $65
New Hampshire NH24$32−30%$11 – $52
Utah UT42$31−31%$26 – $95
Maine ME28$29−35%$20 – $43
Oklahoma OK64$28−38%$17 – $56
Pennsylvania PA120$27−40%$10 – $63
Arizona AZ41$26−42%$15 – $106
New York NY119$25−44%$13 – $68
Maryland MD36$25−44%$21 – $33
West Virginia WV44$22−50%$14 – $62
Michigan MI100$21−53%$11 – $53
Louisiana LA54$21−54%$11 – $57
Arkansas AR38$19−59%$13 – $64
New Jersey NJ56$10−78%$9 – $26
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $45.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,262$45$18 – $105
Children’s65$52$22 – $86
Critical access956$44$22 – $80
Ownership
For-profit465$70$21 – $314
Government616$39$20 – $75
Non-profit2,202$44$18 – $89
System affiliation
Part of a system2,678$47$20 – $101
Independent615$37$18 – $75

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$76
Median cash price$45
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,216 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $51; most fall between $21 and $96.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,216 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
$13$26$48$87$136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $136).

Of the 2,440 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,216 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,293 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,581 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,293
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here165
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,581

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 PR Occ Hlth Urine Pregnancy Test.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Urine pregnancy test (CPT 81025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81025-urine-pregnancy-test