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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Creatinine test on urine or other fluid

CPT 82570the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures creatinine in a sample other than blood, such as urine or another body fluid.

Hospitals typically charge $28 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,403 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30. Most fall between $9 and $65 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,403
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 3,403 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$28$55$99

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $99).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $5: 156 hospitals$4$5 – $8: 224 hospitals$8 – $11: 283 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 291 hospitals$16 – $23: 335 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 475 hospitals$33 – $48: 485 hospitals$33$48 – $70: 398 hospitals$70 – $101: 256 hospitals$70$101 – $146: 164 hospitals$101median $28price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,067 of 3,403 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$5156
$5$8224
$8$11283
$11$16291
$16$23335
$23$33475
$33$48485
$48$70398
$70$101256
$101$146164

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $28.

Alaska: median $45 across 19 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $30 across 28 hospitalsME$30Vermont: median $44 across 14 hospitalsVT$44New Hampshire: median $32 across 25 hospitalsNH$32Washington: median $36 across 77 hospitalsWA$36Idaho: median $25 across 25 hospitalsID$25Montana: median $28 across 32 hospitalsMT$28North Dakota: median $28 across 33 hospitalsND$28Minnesota: median $23 across 106 hospitalsMN$23Illinois: median $44 across 146 hospitalsIL$44Wisconsin: median $38 across 109 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $8 across 89 hospitalsMI$8New York: median $14 across 120 hospitalsNY$14Massachusetts: median $33 across 54 hospitalsMA$33Oregon: median $22 across 51 hospitalsOR$22Nevada: median $43 across 21 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: median $34 across 16 hospitalsWY$34South Dakota: median $76 across 41 hospitalsSD$76Iowa: median $35 across 90 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: median $19 across 98 hospitalsIN$19Ohio: median $23 across 142 hospitalsOH$23Pennsylvania: median $25 across 122 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $28 across 23 hospitalsCT$28Rhode Island: median $31 across 10 hospitalsRI$31California: median $19 across 160 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $47 across 42 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $46 across 72 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $60 across 84 hospitalsNE$60Missouri: median $28 across 78 hospitalsMO$28Kentucky: median $28 across 69 hospitalsKY$28West Virginia: median $9 across 43 hospitalsWV$9Virginia: median $30 across 73 hospitalsVA$30Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $32 across 42 hospitalsAZ$32New Mexico: median $57 across 29 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $31 across 93 hospitalsKS$31Arkansas: median $12 across 40 hospitalsAR$12Tennessee: median $13 across 83 hospitalsTN$13North Carolina: median $26 across 86 hospitalsNC$26South Carolina: median $42 across 53 hospitalsSC$42Oklahoma: median $25 across 73 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $15 across 53 hospitalsLA$15Mississippi: median $21 across 53 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $37 across 45 hospitalsAL$37Georgia: median $27 across 111 hospitalsGA$27Hawaii: median $26 across 21 hospitalsHI$26Texas: median $41 across 249 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $16 across 155 hospitalsFL$16
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $28. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$76+175%$37 – $115
Nebraska NE84$60+116%$19 – $87
New Mexico NM29$57+107%$24 – $93
Utah UT42$47+70%$40 – $78
Colorado CO72$46+66%$26 – $78
Alaska AK19$45+64%$7 – $104
Vermont VT14$44+59%$14 – $77
Illinois IL146$44+58%$21 – $83
Nevada NV21$43+56%$16 – $148
South Carolina SC53$42+52%$19 – $63
Texas TX249$41+49%$8 – $113
Wisconsin WI109$38+35%$21 – $42
Alabama AL45$37+32%$8 – $68
Washington WA77$36+28%$16 – $70
Iowa IA90$35+26%$20 – $63
Wyoming WY16$34+23%$10 – $76
Massachusetts MA54$33+19%$18 – $53
Arizona AZ42$32+14%$8 – $154
New Hampshire NH25$32+14%$15 – $65
Kansas KS93$31+12%$20 – $49
Rhode Island RI10$31+10%$13 – $54
Maine ME28$30+8%$14 – $62
Virginia VA73$30+7%$9 – $66
Missouri MO78$28+1%$18 – $55
Montana MT32$280%$8 – $49
North Dakota ND33$280%$9 – $41
Connecticut CT23$28−1%$19 – $43
Kentucky KY69$28−1%$12 – $65
Maryland MD41$27−2%$21 – $33
Georgia GA111$27−4%$13 – $59
Hawaii HI21$26−7%$11 – $51
North Carolina NC86$26−8%$11 – $54
Oklahoma OK73$25−9%$11 – $42
Idaho ID25$25−11%$15 – $42
Pennsylvania PA122$25−11%$8 – $63
Ohio OH142$23−16%$10 – $41
Minnesota MN106$23−17%$11 – $47
Oregon OR51$22−19%$9 – $40
Mississippi MS53$21−24%$7 – $35
Indiana IN98$19−32%$8 – $51
California CA160$19−33%$3 – $67
Florida FL155$16−44%$4 – $128
Louisiana LA53$15−46%$6 – $36
New York NY120$14−50%$5 – $50
Tennessee TN83$13−52%$5 – $44
Arkansas AR40$12−55%$7 – $35
West Virginia WV43$9−69%$3 – $35
Michigan MI89$8−72%$3 – $23
New Jersey NJ57$6−79%$5 – $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 $28.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,325$25$8 – $66
Children’s67$27$8 – $55
Critical access1,001$34$14 – $63
Ownership
For-profit471$36$9 – $154
Government651$28$10 – $59
Non-profit2,271$27$9 – $60
System affiliation
Part of a system2,745$28$9 – $67
Independent658$28$10 – $56

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$47
Median cash price$28
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

2,304 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $28 and the average of the middle 60% is $30; most fall between $9 and $63.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,304 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$28$54$96

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $96).

Of the 2,552 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,304 gave a usable cash price; 136 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,403 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,725 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,403
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here187
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 — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,725

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Heavy Metal Screen Random Urine Creatinine.

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, “Creatinine test on urine or other fluid (CPT 82570) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82570-creatinine-test-on-urine-or-other-fluid