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Procedure price report · Nonoperative urinary system measurements

Albumin test in urine or other body fluid, per specimen

CPT 82042the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the amount of albumin protein in urine, spinal fluid, or another body fluid; the price is for one specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,035 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $32. Most fall between $12 and $64 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,035
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 3,035 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
$8$14$30$55$100

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $100).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 105 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 255 hospitals$10 – $14: 262 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 288 hospitals$20 – $28: 366 hospitals$20$28 – $38: 415 hospitals$38 – $54: 392 hospitals$38$54 – $75: 328 hospitals$75 – $105: 199 hospitals$75$105 – $146: 123 hospitals$105median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,733 of 3,035 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7105
$7$10255
$10$14262
$14$20288
$20$28366
$28$38415
$38$54392
$54$75328
$75$105199
$105$146123

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: median $49 across 17 hospitalsAK$49Maine: median $32 across 27 hospitalsME$32Vermont: median $41 across 13 hospitalsVT$41New Hampshire: median $37 across 24 hospitalsNH$37Washington: median $36 across 72 hospitalsWA$36Idaho: median $22 across 20 hospitalsID$22Montana: median $39 across 25 hospitalsMT$39North Dakota: median $27 across 24 hospitalsND$27Minnesota: median $31 across 93 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $40 across 125 hospitalsIL$40Wisconsin: median $48 across 103 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $13 across 95 hospitalsMI$13New York: median $22 across 103 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $35 across 49 hospitalsMA$35Oregon: median $33 across 47 hospitalsOR$33Nevada: median $41 across 18 hospitalsNV$41Wyoming: median $30 across 16 hospitalsWY$30South Dakota: median $40 across 18 hospitalsSD$40Iowa: median $34 across 75 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $28 across 92 hospitalsIN$28Ohio: median $32 across 134 hospitalsOH$32Pennsylvania: median $27 across 117 hospitalsPA$27New Jersey: median $9 across 57 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $28 across 23 hospitalsCT$28Rhode Island: median $28 across 10 hospitalsRI$28California: median $15 across 148 hospitalsCA$15Utah: median $46 across 37 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $38 across 60 hospitalsCO$38Nebraska: median $42 across 60 hospitalsNE$42Missouri: median $25 across 71 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $23 across 60 hospitalsKY$23West Virginia: median $24 across 37 hospitalsWV$24Virginia: median $33 across 72 hospitalsVA$33Maryland: median $26 across 39 hospitalsMD$26Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $56 across 38 hospitalsAZ$56New Mexico: median $38 across 27 hospitalsNM$38Kansas: median $35 across 59 hospitalsKS$35Arkansas: median $20 across 33 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $12 across 79 hospitalsTN$12North Carolina: median $37 across 85 hospitalsNC$37South Carolina: median $40 across 50 hospitalsSC$40Oklahoma: median $22 across 64 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: median $18 across 51 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $18 across 50 hospitalsMS$18Alabama: median $24 across 37 hospitalsAL$24Georgia: median $48 across 92 hospitalsGA$48Hawaii: median $44 across 18 hospitalsHI$44Texas: median $36 across 218 hospitalsTX$36Florida: median $16 across 146 hospitalsFL$16
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ38$56+88%$12 – $249
Alaska AK17$49+66%$21 – $108
Georgia GA92$48+63%$18 – $55
Wisconsin WI103$48+61%$23 – $54
Utah UT37$46+55%$39 – $68
Hawaii HI18$44+47%$14 – $48
Nebraska NE60$42+42%$17 – $77
Vermont VT13$41+38%$22 – $56
Nevada NV18$41+38%$12 – $110
South Carolina SC50$40+37%$25 – $86
Illinois IL125$40+36%$18 – $79
South Dakota SD18$40+36%$26 – $124
Montana MT25$39+34%$17 – $58
New Mexico NM27$38+30%$20 – $76
Colorado CO60$38+29%$16 – $56
North Carolina NC85$37+25%$15 – $64
New Hampshire NH24$37+24%$17 – $107
Texas TX218$36+21%$10 – $131
Washington WA72$36+21%$22 – $70
Kansas KS59$35+19%$25 – $57
Massachusetts MA49$35+19%$18 – $56
Iowa IA75$34+14%$20 – $60
Oregon OR47$33+12%$21 – $48
Virginia VA72$33+11%$9 – $72
Maine ME27$32+10%$12 – $92
Ohio OH134$32+10%$13 – $70
Minnesota MN93$31+5%$17 – $48
Wyoming WY16$30+2%$16 – $70
Indiana IN92$28−5%$15 – $51
Connecticut CT23$28−6%$18 – $58
Rhode Island RI10$28−7%$12 – $42
North Dakota ND24$27−9%$13 – $52
Pennsylvania PA117$27−9%$9 – $64
Maryland MD39$26−10%$21 – $33
Missouri MO71$25−14%$17 – $51
West Virginia WV37$24−18%$4 – $53
Alabama AL37$24−19%$9 – $70
Kentucky KY60$23−21%$7 – $65
Oklahoma OK64$22−24%$16 – $45
New York NY103$22−25%$9 – $45
Idaho ID20$22−25%$16 – $39
Arkansas AR33$20−31%$11 – $73
Mississippi MS50$18−38%$9 – $35
Louisiana LA51$18−39%$10 – $51
Florida FL146$16−47%$5 – $62
California CA148$15−49%$5 – $100
Michigan MI95$13−57%$6 – $27
Tennessee TN79$12−60%$8 – $40
New Jersey NJ57$9−70%$8 – $18
Delaware DE7not 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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,232$27$10 – $64
Children’s51$25$12 – $62
Critical access742$37$16 – $64
Ownership
For-profit438$37$11 – $153
Government501$33$12 – $64
Non-profit2,086$29$12 – $57
System affiliation
Part of a system2,515$29$12 – $64
Independent520$31$14 – $60

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$50
Median cash price$30
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

2,099 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $30 and the average of the middle 60% is $32; most fall between $12 and $59.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,099 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
$8$14$30$53$90

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $90).

Of the 2,313 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,099 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

3,035 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,312 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,035
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,312

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.

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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, “Albumin test in urine or other body fluid, per specimen (CPT 82042) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82042-albumin-test-in-urine-or-other-body-fluid-per-specimen