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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Measurement of urine volume for a timed collection

CPT 81050the billing code this page is about

Measuring the total amount of urine collected over a set time period, such as 24 hours; this charge covers the volume measurement only, not the chemical tests run on the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $20 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,386 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $20. Most fall between $8 and $36 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,386
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,386 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$20$31$54

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $54).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 142 hospitals$4$6 – $7: 149 hospitals$7 – $10: 190 hospitals$7$10 – $14: 280 hospitals$14 – $19: 265 hospitals$14$19 – $25: 405 hospitals$25 – $35: 323 hospitals$25$35 – $47: 222 hospitals$47 – $64: 119 hospitals$47$64 – $86: 53 hospitals$64median $20price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,148 of 2,386 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$6142
$6$7149
$7$10190
$10$14280
$14$19265
$19$25405
$25$35323
$35$47222
$47$64119
$64$8653

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $20.

Alaska: median $51 across 15 hospitalsAK$51Maine: median $16 across 14 hospitalsME$16Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $17 across 21 hospitalsNH$17Washington: median $24 across 53 hospitalsWA$24Idaho: median $17 across 13 hospitalsID$17Montana: median $18 across 14 hospitalsMT$18North Dakota: median $23 across 22 hospitalsND$23Minnesota: median $26 across 45 hospitalsMN$26Illinois: median $25 across 113 hospitalsIL$25Wisconsin: median $25 across 86 hospitalsWI$25Michigan: median $12 across 44 hospitalsMI$12New York: median $11 across 99 hospitalsNY$11Massachusetts: median $23 across 40 hospitalsMA$23Oregon: median $17 across 38 hospitalsOR$17Nevada: median $11 across 12 hospitalsNV$11Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $25 across 63 hospitalsIA$25Indiana: median $10 across 82 hospitalsIN$10Ohio: median $22 across 110 hospitalsOH$22Pennsylvania: median $17 across 78 hospitalsPA$17New Jersey: median $4 across 49 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: median $16 across 21 hospitalsCT$16Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $24 across 121 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $9 across 35 hospitalsUT$9Colorado: median $29 across 57 hospitalsCO$29Nebraska: median $22 across 48 hospitalsNE$22Missouri: median $15 across 58 hospitalsMO$15Kentucky: median $13 across 48 hospitalsKY$13West Virginia: median $15 across 23 hospitalsWV$15Virginia: median $24 across 49 hospitalsVA$24Maryland: median $5 across 24 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $22 across 33 hospitalsAZ$22New Mexico: median $12 across 24 hospitalsNM$12Kansas: median $19 across 51 hospitalsKS$19Arkansas: median $11 across 25 hospitalsAR$11Tennessee: median $10 across 53 hospitalsTN$10North Carolina: median $27 across 58 hospitalsNC$27South Carolina: median $21 across 34 hospitalsSC$21Oklahoma: median $14 across 67 hospitalsOK$14Louisiana: median $9 across 31 hospitalsLA$9Mississippi: median $12 across 48 hospitalsMS$12Alabama: median $14 across 35 hospitalsAL$14Georgia: median $12 across 81 hospitalsGA$12Hawaii: median $20 across 14 hospitalsHI$20Texas: median $24 across 185 hospitalsTX$24Florida: median $38 across 115 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $20. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$51+162%$22 – $56
Florida FL115$38+93%$6 – $115
Colorado CO57$29+46%$20 – $111
North Carolina NC58$27+38%$7 – $33
Minnesota MN45$26+33%$12 – $29
Wisconsin WI86$25+28%$12 – $36
Iowa IA63$25+26%$16 – $29
Illinois IL113$25+25%$13 – $44
Texas TX185$24+25%$15 – $53
California CA121$24+22%$14 – $46
Virginia VA49$24+22%$9 – $55
Washington WA53$24+21%$13 – $31
Massachusetts MA40$23+17%$10 – $35
North Dakota ND22$23+17%$19 – $30
Nebraska NE48$22+14%$19 – $34
Ohio OH110$22+14%$11 – $35
Arizona AZ33$22+11%$6 – $59
South Carolina SC34$21+9%$18 – $38
Hawaii HI14$20+1%$18 – $26
Kansas KS51$19−5%$10 – $30
Montana MT14$18−10%$10 – $26
New Hampshire NH21$17−12%$9 – $29
Oregon OR38$17−13%$14 – $27
Pennsylvania PA78$17−13%$4 – $37
Idaho ID13$17−14%$11 – $21
Connecticut CT21$16−18%$11 – $27
Maine ME14$16−20%$9 – $33
Missouri MO58$15−22%$11 – $25
West Virginia WV23$15−26%$10 – $25
Alabama AL35$14−31%$6 – $23
Oklahoma OK67$14−31%$6 – $22
Kentucky KY48$13−33%$7 – $34
Mississippi MS48$12−37%$7 – $20
Georgia GA81$12−39%$8 – $38
Michigan MI44$12−40%$6 – $20
New Mexico NM24$12−40%$8 – $29
Nevada NV12$11−44%$4 – $21
New York NY99$11−45%$6 – $26
Arkansas AR25$11−45%$7 – $20
Indiana IN82$10−47%$7 – $27
Tennessee TN53$10−48%$5 – $17
Utah UT35$9−52%$8 – $14
Louisiana LA31$9−55%$5 – $20
Maryland MD24$5−73%$4 – $7
New Jersey NJ49$4−79%$4 – $20
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $20.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,752$18$7 – $37
Children’s41$22$8 – $32
Critical access584$21$11 – $34
Ownership
For-profit346$24$11 – $80
Government384$20$9 – $34
Non-profit1,647$19$8 – $32
System affiliation
Part of a system1,978$20$8 – $36
Independent408$20$9 – $33

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$33
Median cash price$20
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

1,619 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $20 and the average of the middle 60% is $20; most fall between $9 and $35.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,619 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
$6$11$20$31$47

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $47).

Of the 1,796 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,619 gave a usable cash price; 91 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,386 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,386
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here121
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded93
Hospitals that filed this code2,601

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 September 4, 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 HC U Vol Measure.

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, “Measurement of urine volume for a timed collection (CPT 81050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81050-measurement-of-urine-volume-for-a-timed-collection