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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Urine albumin test (microalbumin), measured amount

CPT 82043the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that measures the amount of the protein albumin in a urine sample, reported as a number rather than a simple positive or negative.

Hospitals typically charge $43 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,345 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $46. Most fall between $15 and $92 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,345
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 3,345 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
$9$19$43$81$135

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $135).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 181 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 209 hospitals$13 – $18: 244 hospitals$13$18 – $26: 275 hospitals$26 – $36: 360 hospitals$26$36 – $52: 489 hospitals$52 – $73: 465 hospitals$52$73 – $103: 400 hospitals$103 – $146: 269 hospitals$103$146 – $207: 119 hospitals$146median $43price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,011 of 3,345 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9181
$9$13209
$13$18244
$18$26275
$26$36360
$36$52489
$52$73465
$73$103400
$103$146269
$146$207119

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $43.

Alaska: median $89 across 19 hospitalsAK$89Maine: median $49 across 28 hospitalsME$49Vermont: median $60 across 14 hospitalsVT$60New Hampshire: median $65 across 25 hospitalsNH$65Washington: median $43 across 76 hospitalsWA$43Idaho: median $37 across 24 hospitalsID$37Montana: median $49 across 31 hospitalsMT$49North Dakota: median $40 across 31 hospitalsND$40Minnesota: median $40 across 104 hospitalsMN$40Illinois: median $69 across 139 hospitalsIL$69Wisconsin: median $62 across 106 hospitalsWI$62Michigan: median $26 across 96 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $24 across 119 hospitalsNY$24Massachusetts: median $45 across 52 hospitalsMA$45Oregon: median $42 across 51 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: median $46 across 21 hospitalsNV$46Wyoming: median $60 across 16 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $136 across 41 hospitalsSD$136Iowa: median $44 across 87 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $29 across 95 hospitalsIN$29Ohio: median $46 across 138 hospitalsOH$46Pennsylvania: median $29 across 122 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $7 across 57 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $31 across 23 hospitalsCT$31Rhode Island: median $56 across 10 hospitalsRI$56California: median $33 across 155 hospitalsCA$33Utah: median $46 across 41 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $65 across 71 hospitalsCO$65Nebraska: median $85 across 80 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $29 across 76 hospitalsMO$29Kentucky: median $54 across 68 hospitalsKY$54West Virginia: median $19 across 43 hospitalsWV$19Virginia: median $56 across 73 hospitalsVA$56Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $52 across 42 hospitalsAZ$52New Mexico: median $78 across 27 hospitalsNM$78Kansas: median $40 across 85 hospitalsKS$40Arkansas: median $14 across 38 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $24 across 83 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $43 across 86 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $72 across 53 hospitalsSC$72Oklahoma: median $37 across 70 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $22 across 53 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: median $28 across 57 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $41 across 44 hospitalsAL$41Georgia: median $56 across 110 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $46 across 20 hospitalsHI$46Texas: median $51 across 249 hospitalsTX$51Florida: median $22 across 148 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $43. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$136+215%$98 – $198
Alaska AK19$89+106%$16 – $174
Nebraska NE80$85+97%$38 – $127
New Mexico NM27$78+81%$36 – $105
South Carolina SC53$72+68%$39 – $84
Illinois IL139$69+59%$38 – $113
Colorado CO71$65+52%$39 – $156
New Hampshire NH25$65+50%$21 – $100
Wisconsin WI106$62+43%$32 – $94
Vermont VT14$60+39%$16 – $84
Wyoming WY16$60+39%$34 – $86
Georgia GA110$56+30%$18 – $121
Rhode Island RI10$56+30%$21 – $65
Virginia VA73$56+29%$28 – $98
Kentucky KY68$54+25%$18 – $89
Arizona AZ42$52+20%$17 – $115
Texas TX249$51+18%$7 – $136
Maine ME28$49+13%$30 – $66
Montana MT31$49+13%$29 – $65
Hawaii HI20$46+7%$15 – $57
Utah UT41$46+6%$39 – $94
Nevada NV21$46+5%$20 – $81
Ohio OH138$46+5%$20 – $72
Massachusetts MA52$45+4%$22 – $88
Iowa IA87$44+2%$26 – $75
Washington WA76$430%$26 – $92
North Carolina NC86$430%$11 – $60
Oregon OR51$42−2%$31 – $60
Alabama AL44$41−5%$12 – $121
Maryland MD41$41−6%$31 – $49
North Dakota ND31$40−7%$11 – $58
Kansas KS85$40−7%$25 – $70
Minnesota MN104$40−7%$10 – $76
Oklahoma OK70$37−13%$17 – $68
Idaho ID24$37−15%$26 – $58
California CA155$33−23%$9 – $104
Connecticut CT23$31−29%$25 – $66
Pennsylvania PA122$29−32%$10 – $87
Indiana IN95$29−34%$14 – $60
Missouri MO76$29−34%$21 – $73
Mississippi MS57$28−35%$11 – $44
Michigan MI96$26−40%$12 – $63
New York NY119$24−44%$9 – $83
Tennessee TN83$24−44%$10 – $78
Florida FL148$22−48%$7 – $99
Louisiana LA53$22−50%$11 – $54
West Virginia WV43$19−57%$17 – $53
Arkansas AR38$14−68%$9 – $41
New Jersey NJ57$7−85%$6 – $25
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 $43.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,303$41$13 – $89
Children’s61$33$15 – $101
Critical access971$50$23 – $94
Ownership
For-profit463$52$15 – $183
Government637$48$19 – $94
Non-profit2,235$41$14 – $84
System affiliation
Part of a system2,705$43$14 – $94
Independent640$43$18 – $84

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$72
Median cash price$43
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

2,268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $45 and the average of the middle 60% is $47; most fall between $17 and $89.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,268 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
$10$22$45$79$126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $126).

Of the 2,509 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,268 gave a usable cash price; 129 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,345 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,652 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,345
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here175
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 — excluded130
Hospitals that filed this code3,652

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 Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Microalb/Cr Ratio, 24hr.

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 albumin test (microalbumin), measured amount (CPT 82043) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82043-urine-albumin-test-microalbumin-measured-amount