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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Hemoglobin in urine

CPT 83069the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that detects hemoglobin in a urine sample, which can appear when red blood cells break down.

Hospitals typically charge $18 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 610 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $20. Most fall between $7 and $41 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
610
States
46
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 610 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
$4$9$18$34$68

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4 vs $68).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 68 hospitals$4$6 – $8: 33 hospitals$8 – $11: 66 hospitals$8$11 – $15: 71 hospitals$15 – $22: 69 hospitals$15$22 – $30: 88 hospitals$30 – $43: 71 hospitals$30$43 – $60: 35 hospitals$60 – $84: 31 hospitals$60$84 – $118: 19 hospitals$84median $18price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (551 of 610 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$668
$6$833
$8$1166
$11$1571
$15$2269
$22$3088
$30$4371
$43$6035
$60$8431
$84$11819

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $18.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $9 across 12 hospitalsWA$9Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $20 across 33 hospitalsIL$20Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $14 across 17 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $7 across 42 hospitalsNY$7Massachusetts: median $21 across 10 hospitalsMA$21Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $34 across 11 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $16 across 29 hospitalsOH$16Pennsylvania: median $5 across 41 hospitalsPA$5New Jersey: median $4 across 43 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $12 across 45 hospitalsCA$12Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $35 across 15 hospitalsCO$35Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $38 across 10 hospitalsMO$38Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $22 across 12 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $11 across 10 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $11 across 12 hospitalsTN$11North Carolina: median $28 across 11 hospitalsNC$28South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $7 across 19 hospitalsOK$7Louisiana: median $10 across 20 hospitalsLA$10Mississippi: median $9 across 12 hospitalsMS$9Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $27 across 15 hospitalsGA$27Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $26 across 70 hospitalsTX$26Florida: median $61 across 24 hospitalsFL$61
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $18. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL24$61+239%$12 – $151
Missouri MO10$38+108%$17 – $96
Colorado CO15$35+94%$26 – $80
Iowa IA11$34+87%$34 – $34
North Carolina NC11$28+56%$26 – $43
Georgia GA15$27+49%$27 – $76
Texas TX70$26+45%$18 – $38
Virginia VA12$22+22%$9 – $41
Massachusetts MA10$21+17%$10 – $64
Illinois IL33$20+9%$9 – $47
Ohio OH29$16−10%$13 – $31
Michigan MI17$14−24%$5 – $20
California CA45$12−32%$12 – $33
Tennessee TN12$11−41%$10 – $15
Maryland MD10$11−41%$9 – $12
Louisiana LA20$10−44%$7 – $15
Mississippi MS12$9−48%$9 – $12
Washington WA12$9−51%$9 – $18
New York NY42$7−61%$4 – $22
Oklahoma OK19$7−61%$7 – $55
Pennsylvania PA41$5−75%$3 – $52
New Jersey NJ43$4−76%$4 – $49
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $18.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care531$18$7 – $39
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$21$10 – $48
Ownership
For-profit86$26$10 – $94
Government66$18$8 – $38
Non-profit457$17$7 – $37
System affiliation
Part of a system536$18$7 – $39
Independent74$21$9 – $50

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$38
Median cash price$18
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

430 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $23 and the average of the middle 60% is $23; most fall between $10 and $41.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 430 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
$7$11$23$35$62

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $62).

Of the 496 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 430 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

610 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 698 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted610
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code698

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Assay Of Urine Hemoglobin.

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, “Hemoglobin in urine (CPT 83069) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83069-hemoglobin-in-urine