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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sodium urine test

CPT 84300the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of sodium in a urine sample; sodium in other body fluids is billed under a different code.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,363 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $36. Most fall between $13 and $70 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,363
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 3,363 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
$8$16$34$61$108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $108).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 153 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 261 hospitals$11 – $16: 245 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 357 hospitals$23 – $32: 400 hospitals$23$32 – $46: 537 hospitals$46 – $65: 471 hospitals$46$65 – $92: 331 hospitals$92 – $130: 198 hospitals$92$130 – $185: 75 hospitals$130median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,028 of 3,363 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8153
$8$11261
$11$16245
$16$23357
$23$32400
$32$46537
$46$65471
$65$92331
$92$130198
$130$18575

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: median $59 across 19 hospitalsAK$59Maine: median $32 across 28 hospitalsME$32Vermont: median $41 across 14 hospitalsVT$41New Hampshire: median $31 across 25 hospitalsNH$31Washington: median $41 across 75 hospitalsWA$41Idaho: median $22 across 24 hospitalsID$22Montana: median $45 across 31 hospitalsMT$45North Dakota: median $34 across 35 hospitalsND$34Minnesota: median $35 across 105 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $42 across 145 hospitalsIL$42Wisconsin: median $25 across 108 hospitalsWI$25Michigan: median $18 across 96 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $21 across 106 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $33 across 52 hospitalsMA$33Oregon: median $26 across 50 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: median $41 across 22 hospitalsNV$41Wyoming: median $39 across 16 hospitalsWY$39South Dakota: median $76 across 39 hospitalsSD$76Iowa: median $36 across 88 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $21 across 97 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $32 across 143 hospitalsOH$32Pennsylvania: median $21 across 122 hospitalsPA$21New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $26 across 23 hospitalsCT$26Rhode Island: median $39 across 10 hospitalsRI$39California: median $70 across 161 hospitalsCA$70Utah: median $65 across 40 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $46 across 71 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $53 across 82 hospitalsNE$53Missouri: median $32 across 76 hospitalsMO$32Kentucky: median $33 across 69 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $15 across 43 hospitalsWV$15Virginia: median $34 across 73 hospitalsVA$34Maryland: median $26 across 40 hospitalsMD$26Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $50 across 42 hospitalsAZ$50New Mexico: median $44 across 30 hospitalsNM$44Kansas: median $35 across 87 hospitalsKS$35Arkansas: median $19 across 39 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $23 across 83 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $21 across 85 hospitalsNC$21South Carolina: median $48 across 52 hospitalsSC$48Oklahoma: median $23 across 73 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $19 across 52 hospitalsLA$19Mississippi: median $19 across 56 hospitalsMS$19Alabama: median $29 across 44 hospitalsAL$29Georgia: median $36 across 109 hospitalsGA$36Hawaii: median $43 across 20 hospitalsHI$43Texas: median $55 across 246 hospitalsTX$55Florida: median $92 across 153 hospitalsFL$92
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL153$92+168%$8 – $332
South Dakota SD39$76+121%$35 – $104
California CA161$70+105%$7 – $161
Utah UT40$65+90%$53 – $76
Alaska AK19$59+72%$7 – $98
Texas TX246$55+61%$22 – $127
Nebraska NE82$53+55%$40 – $75
Arizona AZ42$50+45%$9 – $208
South Carolina SC52$48+40%$22 – $83
Colorado CO71$46+33%$24 – $70
Montana MT31$45+31%$25 – $65
New Mexico NM30$44+29%$25 – $90
Hawaii HI20$43+25%$10 – $47
Illinois IL145$42+23%$17 – $74
Vermont VT14$41+20%$14 – $76
Washington WA75$41+19%$23 – $62
Nevada NV22$41+19%$16 – $82
Wyoming WY16$39+14%$11 – $101
Rhode Island RI10$39+13%$13 – $49
Georgia GA109$36+5%$13 – $50
Iowa IA88$36+4%$28 – $54
Kansas KS87$35+3%$20 – $55
Minnesota MN105$35+2%$11 – $51
Virginia VA73$340%$9 – $99
North Dakota ND35$340%$9 – $42
Massachusetts MA52$33−4%$18 – $55
Kentucky KY69$33−5%$15 – $98
Ohio OH143$32−6%$17 – $48
Maine ME28$32−7%$18 – $87
Missouri MO76$32−7%$19 – $51
New Hampshire NH25$31−9%$20 – $88
Alabama AL44$29−15%$10 – $83
Maryland MD40$26−23%$20 – $33
Connecticut CT23$26−24%$19 – $54
Oregon OR50$26−26%$13 – $44
Wisconsin WI108$25−27%$20 – $47
Oklahoma OK73$23−33%$11 – $49
Tennessee TN83$23−34%$9 – $48
Idaho ID24$22−37%$10 – $52
North Carolina NC85$21−38%$11 – $47
New York NY106$21−39%$11 – $65
Indiana IN97$21−39%$12 – $50
Pennsylvania PA122$21−39%$8 – $59
Arkansas AR39$19−45%$12 – $40
Mississippi MS56$19−46%$9 – $41
Louisiana LA52$19−46%$8 – $35
Michigan MI96$18−47%$5 – $42
West Virginia WV43$15−56%$10 – $53
New Jersey NJ57$6−83%$6 – $19
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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,310$32$11 – $75
Children’s65$42$20 – $86
Critical access978$38$18 – $62
Ownership
For-profit467$60$19 – $227
Government636$32$12 – $59
Non-profit2,250$32$12 – $65
System affiliation
Part of a system2,726$35$12 – $74
Independent637$31$15 – $59

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$57
Median cash price$34
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

2,270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $35 and the average of the middle 60% is $36; most fall between $13 and $70.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,270 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$16$35$61$99

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $99).

Of the 2,506 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,270 gave a usable cash price; 124 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

3,363 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 3,667 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,363
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here169
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 code3,667

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 Sodium-Fluid.

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, “Sodium urine test (CPT 84300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84300-sodium-urine-test