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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Total protein in urine

CPT 84156the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test measuring the total amount of protein in a urine sample, often a collection gathered over 12 to 24 hours.

Hospitals typically charge $32 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,361 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34. Most fall between $11 and $71 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,361
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 3,361 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$15$32$59$110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $110).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 129 hospitals$4$6 – $9: 213 hospitals$9 – $13: 229 hospitals$9$13 – $19: 335 hospitals$19 – $28: 436 hospitals$19$28 – $42: 527 hospitals$42 – $61: 539 hospitals$42$61 – $91: 327 hospitals$91 – $134: 209 hospitals$91$134 – $197: 81 hospitals$134median $32price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,025 of 3,361 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$6129
$6$9213
$9$13229
$13$19335
$19$28436
$28$42527
$42$61539
$61$91327
$91$134209
$134$19781

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $32.

Alaska: median $39 across 19 hospitalsAK$39Maine: median $30 across 28 hospitalsME$30Vermont: median $33 across 14 hospitalsVT$33New Hampshire: median $35 across 25 hospitalsNH$35Washington: median $45 across 77 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: median $18 across 24 hospitalsID$18Montana: median $33 across 31 hospitalsMT$33North Dakota: median $26 across 33 hospitalsND$26Minnesota: median $27 across 105 hospitalsMN$27Illinois: median $53 across 140 hospitalsIL$53Wisconsin: median $41 across 107 hospitalsWI$41Michigan: median $17 across 94 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $16 across 117 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: median $36 across 53 hospitalsMA$36Oregon: median $26 across 51 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: median $31 across 19 hospitalsNV$31Wyoming: median $23 across 16 hospitalsWY$23South Dakota: median $74 across 41 hospitalsSD$74Iowa: median $40 across 90 hospitalsIA$40Indiana: median $22 across 96 hospitalsIN$22Ohio: median $26 across 141 hospitalsOH$26Pennsylvania: median $20 across 121 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: median $4 across 57 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: median $21 across 23 hospitalsCT$21Rhode Island: median $21 across 10 hospitalsRI$21California: median $16 across 157 hospitalsCA$16Utah: median $48 across 43 hospitalsUT$48Colorado: median $51 across 71 hospitalsCO$51Nebraska: median $61 across 83 hospitalsNE$61Missouri: median $32 across 78 hospitalsMO$32Kentucky: median $44 across 69 hospitalsKY$44West Virginia: median $24 across 43 hospitalsWV$24Virginia: median $50 across 73 hospitalsVA$50Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $24 across 39 hospitalsAZ$24New Mexico: median $62 across 30 hospitalsNM$62Kansas: median $32 across 89 hospitalsKS$32Arkansas: median $22 across 38 hospitalsAR$22Tennessee: median $23 across 82 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $35 across 85 hospitalsNC$35South Carolina: median $45 across 49 hospitalsSC$45Oklahoma: median $28 across 73 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: median $17 across 51 hospitalsLA$17Mississippi: median $22 across 54 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $35 across 44 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $46 across 109 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: median $32 across 19 hospitalsHI$32Texas: median $37 across 247 hospitalsTX$37Florida: median $29 across 155 hospitalsFL$29
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $32. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$74+131%$37 – $138
New Mexico NM30$62+94%$17 – $94
Nebraska NE83$61+88%$23 – $86
Illinois IL140$53+63%$21 – $95
Colorado CO71$51+57%$24 – $78
Virginia VA73$50+55%$25 – $68
Utah UT43$48+49%$41 – $76
Georgia GA109$46+43%$14 – $75
Washington WA77$45+40%$19 – $65
South Carolina SC49$45+38%$23 – $72
Kentucky KY69$44+36%$11 – $102
Wisconsin WI107$41+26%$23 – $48
Iowa IA90$40+24%$20 – $56
Alaska AK19$39+22%$9 – $101
Texas TX247$37+16%$17 – $157
Massachusetts MA53$36+10%$16 – $66
North Carolina NC85$35+10%$16 – $74
New Hampshire NH25$35+8%$12 – $89
Alabama AL44$35+8%$10 – $97
Montana MT31$33+3%$13 – $53
Vermont VT14$33+2%$10 – $93
Hawaii HI19$32+1%$14 – $44
Missouri MO78$32+1%$19 – $72
Kansas KS89$320%$19 – $55
Nevada NV19$31−4%$6 – $155
Maine ME28$30−7%$18 – $71
Florida FL155$29−9%$6 – $231
Oklahoma OK73$28−14%$11 – $48
Maryland MD41$27−15%$21 – $33
Minnesota MN105$27−16%$18 – $46
Ohio OH141$26−18%$13 – $51
North Dakota ND33$26−19%$7 – $41
Oregon OR51$26−19%$9 – $52
Arizona AZ39$24−24%$4 – $250
West Virginia WV43$24−25%$11 – $60
Tennessee TN82$23−27%$6 – $68
Wyoming WY16$23−28%$8 – $70
Arkansas AR38$22−30%$10 – $39
Mississippi MS54$22−32%$11 – $47
Indiana IN96$22−33%$10 – $55
Connecticut CT23$21−33%$16 – $41
Rhode Island RI10$21−36%$14 – $35
Pennsylvania PA121$20−38%$6 – $52
Idaho ID24$18−45%$12 – $46
Louisiana LA51$17−46%$8 – $48
Michigan MI94$17−47%$6 – $38
New York NY117$16−49%$6 – $59
California CA157$16−50%$4 – $76
New Jersey NJ57$4−87%$4 – $41
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 $32.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,304$31$10 – $72
Children’s67$32$14 – $85
Critical access980$36$16 – $66
Ownership
For-profit459$52$14 – $250
Government639$33$11 – $68
Non-profit2,253$31$11 – $59
System affiliation
Part of a system2,722$33$11 – $72
Independent639$30$11 – $65

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$52
Median cash price$32
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

2,280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $32 and the average of the middle 60% is $34; most fall between $12 and $66.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,280 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$16$32$55$99

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $99).

Of the 2,520 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,280 gave a usable cash price; 126 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 114 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,361 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 3,673 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,361
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,673

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 Total Protein-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, “Total protein in urine (CPT 84156) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84156-total-protein-in-urine