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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sulfate level in urine

CPT 84392the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the amount of sulfate in a urine sample.

Hospitals typically charge $23 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,950 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $25. Most fall between $10 and $54 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,950
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,950 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$23$45$90

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $90).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 141 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 142 hospitals$10 – $13: 260 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 211 hospitals$18 – $26: 212 hospitals$18$26 – $35: 235 hospitals$35 – $49: 230 hospitals$35$49 – $68: 124 hospitals$68 – $94: 128 hospitals$68$94 – $131: 83 hospitals$94median $23price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,766 of 1,950 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7141
$7$10142
$10$13260
$13$18211
$18$26212
$26$35235
$35$49230
$49$68124
$68$94128
$94$13183

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $23.

Alaska: median $24 across 13 hospitalsAK$24Maine: median $19 across 17 hospitalsME$19Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $33 across 17 hospitalsNH$33Washington: median $25 across 28 hospitalsWA$25Idaho: median $21 across 16 hospitalsID$21Montana: median $28 across 13 hospitalsMT$28North Dakota: median $29 across 28 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $25 across 78 hospitalsMN$25Illinois: median $32 across 108 hospitalsIL$32Wisconsin: median $30 across 90 hospitalsWI$30Michigan: median $8 across 43 hospitalsMI$8New York: median $12 across 71 hospitalsNY$12Massachusetts: median $25 across 29 hospitalsMA$25Oregon: median $18 across 26 hospitalsOR$18Nevada: median $29 across 16 hospitalsNV$29Wyoming: median $18 across 10 hospitalsWY$18South Dakota: median $59 across 21 hospitalsSD$59Iowa: median $26 across 44 hospitalsIA$26Indiana: median $12 across 50 hospitalsIN$12Ohio: median $27 across 92 hospitalsOH$27Pennsylvania: median $21 across 110 hospitalsPA$21New Jersey: median $6 across 51 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $11 across 73 hospitalsCA$11Utah: median $10 across 31 hospitalsUT$10Colorado: median $33 across 33 hospitalsCO$33Nebraska: median $41 across 29 hospitalsNE$41Missouri: median $31 across 57 hospitalsMO$31Kentucky: median $26 across 35 hospitalsKY$26West Virginia: median $11 across 27 hospitalsWV$11Virginia: median $26 across 40 hospitalsVA$26Maryland: median $114 across 24 hospitalsMD$114Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $36 across 25 hospitalsAZ$36New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $71 across 25 hospitalsKS$71Arkansas: median $31 across 14 hospitalsAR$31Tennessee: median $8 across 34 hospitalsTN$8North Carolina: median $17 across 65 hospitalsNC$17South Carolina: median $46 across 30 hospitalsSC$46Oklahoma: median $17 across 55 hospitalsOK$17Louisiana: median $11 across 34 hospitalsLA$11Mississippi: median $12 across 29 hospitalsMS$12Alabama: median $14 across 17 hospitalsAL$14Georgia: median $14 across 61 hospitalsGA$14Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $41 across 139 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $10 across 56 hospitalsFL$10
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $23. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD24$114+399%$70 – $131
Kansas KS25$71+209%$23 – $170
South Dakota SD21$59+160%$19 – $90
South Carolina SC30$46+101%$17 – $68
Nebraska NE29$41+79%$21 – $95
Texas TX139$41+78%$15 – $78
Arizona AZ25$36+57%$6 – $36
Colorado CO33$33+44%$10 – $77
New Hampshire NH17$33+44%$15 – $58
Illinois IL108$32+40%$14 – $62
Arkansas AR14$31+36%$27 – $35
Missouri MO57$31+34%$15 – $37
Wisconsin WI90$30+31%$16 – $43
North Dakota ND28$29+27%$8 – $46
Nevada NV16$29+25%$17 – $73
Montana MT13$28+20%$18 – $34
Ohio OH92$27+17%$22 – $65
Kentucky KY35$26+15%$11 – $48
Virginia VA40$26+13%$3 – $42
Iowa IA44$26+12%$22 – $37
Massachusetts MA29$25+10%$12 – $74
Washington WA28$25+8%$10 – $45
Minnesota MN78$25+8%$10 – $51
Alaska AK13$24+5%$6 – $66
Idaho ID16$21−9%$18 – $29
Pennsylvania PA110$21−10%$6 – $65
Maine ME17$19−18%$11 – $56
Wyoming WY10$18−20%$10 – $39
Oregon OR26$18−23%$10 – $32
North Carolina NC65$17−27%$13 – $95
Oklahoma OK55$17−27%$10 – $56
Georgia GA61$14−39%$11 – $35
Alabama AL17$14−40%$10 – $53
Mississippi MS29$12−46%$5 – $19
New York NY71$12−46%$5 – $23
Indiana IN50$12−49%$8 – $23
Louisiana LA34$11−51%$5 – $31
West Virginia WV27$11−52%$11 – $23
California CA73$11−53%$5 – $43
Florida FL56$10−57%$6 – $81
Utah UT31$10−58%$10 – $11
Tennessee TN34$8−63%$6 – $26
Michigan MI43$8−67%$3 – $35
New Jersey NJ51$6−74%$5 – $43
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not 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 $23.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,423$21$9 – $50
Children’s36$27$14 – $66
Critical access488$29$13 – $62
Ownership
For-profit205$31$11 – $88
Government295$21$9 – $56
Non-profit1,447$23$10 – $50
System affiliation
Part of a system1,652$23$10 – $54
Independent298$22$10 – $58

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$39
Median cash price$23
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

1,377 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $25 and the average of the middle 60% is $26; most fall between $11 and $52.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,377 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$12$25$44$78

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $78).

Of the 1,514 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,377 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,950 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,115 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,950
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here103
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 — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code2,115

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 ASSAY OF URINE SULFATE.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Sulfate level in urine (CPT 84392) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84392-sulfate-level-in-urine