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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Chloride urine test

CPT 82436the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of chloride, an electrolyte, in a urine sample.

Hospitals typically charge $33 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,187 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $35. Most fall between $14 and $66 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,187
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 3,187 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$17$33$57$106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $106).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 162 hospitals$6$9 – $12: 241 hospitals$12 – $17: 249 hospitals$12$17 – $24: 360 hospitals$24 – $33: 436 hospitals$24$33 – $47: 536 hospitals$47 – $65: 407 hospitals$47$65 – $91: 255 hospitals$91 – $126: 137 hospitals$91$126 – $176: 101 hospitals$126median $33price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,884 of 3,187 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9162
$9$12241
$12$17249
$17$24360
$24$33436
$33$47536
$47$65407
$65$91255
$91$126137
$126$176101

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $33.

Alaska: median $45 across 18 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $31 across 28 hospitalsME$31Vermont: median $26 across 13 hospitalsVT$26New Hampshire: median $36 across 21 hospitalsNH$36Washington: median $47 across 71 hospitalsWA$47Idaho: median $17 across 20 hospitalsID$17Montana: median $36 across 27 hospitalsMT$36North Dakota: median $29 across 32 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $33 across 94 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $39 across 138 hospitalsIL$39Wisconsin: median $39 across 101 hospitalsWI$39Michigan: median $22 across 94 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $18 across 107 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: median $35 across 50 hospitalsMA$35Oregon: median $28 across 51 hospitalsOR$28Nevada: median $33 across 20 hospitalsNV$33Wyoming: median $31 across 16 hospitalsWY$31South Dakota: median $49 across 35 hospitalsSD$49Iowa: median $36 across 76 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $21 across 93 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $26 across 141 hospitalsOH$26Pennsylvania: median $29 across 113 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $7 across 56 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $27 across 23 hospitalsCT$27Rhode Island: median $45 across 10 hospitalsRI$45California: median $58 across 154 hospitalsCA$58Utah: median $46 across 41 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $52 across 64 hospitalsCO$52Nebraska: median $57 across 64 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $33 across 72 hospitalsMO$33Kentucky: median $35 across 68 hospitalsKY$35West Virginia: median $12 across 40 hospitalsWV$12Virginia: median $41 across 73 hospitalsVA$41Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $47 across 42 hospitalsAZ$47New Mexico: median $50 across 26 hospitalsNM$50Kansas: median $32 across 74 hospitalsKS$32Arkansas: median $20 across 37 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $20 across 80 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $27 across 80 hospitalsNC$27South Carolina: median $72 across 52 hospitalsSC$72Oklahoma: median $23 across 68 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $23 across 50 hospitalsLA$23Mississippi: median $25 across 53 hospitalsMS$25Alabama: median $33 across 42 hospitalsAL$33Georgia: median $35 across 105 hospitalsGA$35Hawaii: median $32 across 18 hospitalsHI$32Texas: median $46 across 236 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $59 across 152 hospitalsFL$59
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $33. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC52$72+117%$30 – $84
Florida FL152$59+78%$12 – $270
California CA154$58+73%$6 – $158
Nebraska NE64$57+71%$29 – $92
Colorado CO64$52+57%$14 – $88
New Mexico NM26$50+51%$18 – $85
South Dakota SD35$49+47%$23 – $81
Arizona AZ42$47+41%$10 – $254
Washington WA71$47+41%$22 – $68
Texas TX236$46+38%$20 – $124
Utah UT41$46+38%$38 – $57
Rhode Island RI10$45+36%$12 – $48
Alaska AK18$45+35%$7 – $70
Virginia VA73$41+23%$23 – $70
Illinois IL138$39+18%$18 – $79
Wisconsin WI101$39+17%$22 – $55
Iowa IA76$36+10%$23 – $47
Montana MT27$36+9%$26 – $53
New Hampshire NH21$36+9%$16 – $70
Kentucky KY68$35+7%$19 – $77
Massachusetts MA50$35+6%$18 – $57
Georgia GA105$35+5%$18 – $58
Minnesota MN94$33−1%$13 – $43
Nevada NV20$33−1%$9 – $64
Alabama AL42$33−1%$17 – $126
Missouri MO72$33−2%$22 – $60
Kansas KS74$32−3%$22 – $58
Hawaii HI18$32−5%$30 – $53
Wyoming WY16$31−7%$12 – $60
Maine ME28$31−8%$16 – $87
North Dakota ND32$29−12%$8 – $40
Pennsylvania PA113$29−13%$12 – $68
Oregon OR51$28−15%$18 – $36
Maryland MD41$27−17%$21 – $33
Connecticut CT23$27−19%$19 – $43
North Carolina NC80$27−19%$13 – $46
Ohio OH141$26−22%$18 – $45
Vermont VT13$26−23%$16 – $66
Mississippi MS53$25−26%$10 – $46
Louisiana LA50$23−30%$8 – $46
Oklahoma OK68$23−31%$17 – $46
Michigan MI94$22−34%$9 – $33
Indiana IN93$21−37%$12 – $57
Arkansas AR37$20−40%$9 – $35
Tennessee TN80$20−41%$9 – $55
New York NY107$18−45%$9 – $49
Idaho ID20$17−47%$10 – $35
West Virginia WV40$12−64%$12 – $60
New Jersey NJ56$7−80%$6 – $17
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 $33.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,254$32$13 – $69
Children’s64$32$19 – $83
Critical access859$36$18 – $59
Ownership
For-profit444$55$19 – $227
Government568$33$15 – $59
Non-profit2,165$31$13 – $58
System affiliation
Part of a system2,604$34$14 – $68
Independent583$32$15 – $57

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$55
Median cash price$33
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

2,173 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $34 and the average of the middle 60% is $35; most fall between $15 and $64.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,173 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$18$34$57$95

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $95).

Of the 2,403 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,173 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,187 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,482 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,187
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here171
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,482

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Chloride-Urine.

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, “Chloride urine test (CPT 82436) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82436-chloride-urine-test