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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Uric acid test on urine or other fluid

CPT 84560the billing code this page is about

Measures uric acid in a sample other than blood, most often urine. Covers one measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,139 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $32. Most fall between $11 and $64 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,139
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 3,139 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$14$31$54$104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $104).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 178 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 170 hospitals$10 – $14: 283 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 314 hospitals$19 – $28: 373 hospitals$19$28 – $39: 417 hospitals$39 – $56: 504 hospitals$39$56 – $79: 276 hospitals$79 – $113: 195 hospitals$79$113 – $160: 119 hospitals$113median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,829 of 3,139 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7178
$7$10170
$10$14283
$14$19314
$19$28373
$28$39417
$39$56504
$56$79276
$79$113195
$113$160119

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $31.

Alaska: median $41 across 17 hospitalsAK$41Maine: median $38 across 28 hospitalsME$38Vermont: median $40 across 13 hospitalsVT$40New Hampshire: median $39 across 23 hospitalsNH$39Washington: median $36 across 68 hospitalsWA$36Idaho: median $19 across 22 hospitalsID$19Montana: median $35 across 25 hospitalsMT$35North Dakota: median $30 across 33 hospitalsND$30Minnesota: median $33 across 95 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $48 across 142 hospitalsIL$48Wisconsin: median $32 across 100 hospitalsWI$32Michigan: median $21 across 85 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $18 across 105 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: median $32 across 48 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $25 across 45 hospitalsOR$25Nevada: median $30 across 20 hospitalsNV$30Wyoming: median $27 across 16 hospitalsWY$27South Dakota: median $59 across 29 hospitalsSD$59Iowa: median $38 across 81 hospitalsIA$38Indiana: median $28 across 93 hospitalsIN$28Ohio: median $31 across 141 hospitalsOH$31Pennsylvania: median $25 across 120 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $6 across 56 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $22 across 21 hospitalsCT$22Rhode Island: median $32 across 10 hospitalsRI$32California: median $16 across 154 hospitalsCA$16Utah: median $46 across 40 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $46 across 64 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $51 across 62 hospitalsNE$51Missouri: median $34 across 75 hospitalsMO$34Kentucky: median $33 across 66 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $10 across 39 hospitalsWV$10Virginia: median $32 across 70 hospitalsVA$32Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $57 across 39 hospitalsAZ$57New Mexico: median $57 across 24 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $33 across 72 hospitalsKS$33Arkansas: median $31 across 28 hospitalsAR$31Tennessee: median $21 across 78 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $21 across 82 hospitalsNC$21South Carolina: median $65 across 48 hospitalsSC$65Oklahoma: median $19 across 68 hospitalsOK$19Louisiana: median $18 across 50 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $21 across 53 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $23 across 42 hospitalsAL$23Georgia: median $42 across 100 hospitalsGA$42Hawaii: median $26 across 18 hospitalsHI$26Texas: median $31 across 237 hospitalsTX$31Florida: median $16 across 146 hospitalsFL$16
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $31. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC48$65+111%$27 – $118
South Dakota SD29$59+94%$17 – $90
Arizona AZ39$57+88%$13 – $357
New Mexico NM24$57+86%$22 – $103
Nebraska NE62$51+67%$28 – $77
Illinois IL142$48+55%$17 – $84
Utah UT40$46+50%$39 – $101
Colorado CO64$46+50%$11 – $65
Georgia GA100$42+36%$14 – $86
Alaska AK17$41+34%$7 – $116
Vermont VT13$40+31%$19 – $82
New Hampshire NH23$39+27%$28 – $63
Maine ME28$38+24%$21 – $62
Iowa IA81$38+23%$25 – $66
Washington WA68$36+17%$21 – $64
Montana MT25$35+15%$16 – $51
Missouri MO75$34+12%$17 – $58
Kentucky KY66$33+9%$12 – $72
Minnesota MN95$33+8%$10 – $44
Kansas KS72$33+7%$25 – $59
Massachusetts MA48$32+5%$17 – $56
Rhode Island RI10$32+5%$11 – $39
Wisconsin WI100$32+4%$20 – $49
Virginia VA70$32+3%$8 – $73
Ohio OH141$31+2%$19 – $47
Texas TX237$310%$14 – $124
Arkansas AR28$310%$9 – $51
North Dakota ND33$30−2%$8 – $42
Nevada NV20$30−2%$16 – $77
Indiana IN93$28−10%$14 – $58
Maryland MD41$27−10%$21 – $33
Wyoming WY16$27−12%$21 – $49
Hawaii HI18$26−16%$10 – $63
Oregon OR45$25−17%$11 – $56
Pennsylvania PA120$25−20%$6 – $62
Alabama AL42$23−25%$9 – $53
Connecticut CT21$22−27%$18 – $40
Tennessee TN78$21−30%$8 – $49
Michigan MI85$21−31%$7 – $32
Mississippi MS53$21−31%$6 – $37
North Carolina NC82$21−31%$11 – $53
Oklahoma OK68$19−39%$10 – $53
Idaho ID22$19−39%$13 – $54
Louisiana LA50$18−41%$6 – $45
New York NY105$18−41%$6 – $54
Florida FL146$16−47%$6 – $105
California CA154$16−48%$4 – $104
West Virginia WV39$10−67%$10 – $41
New Jersey NJ56$6−81%$6 – $16
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 $31.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,216$27$10 – $64
Children’s63$36$16 – $72
Critical access850$36$17 – $64
Ownership
For-profit435$42$11 – $226
Government557$30$11 – $58
Non-profit2,137$29$10 – $58
System affiliation
Part of a system2,571$31$10 – $65
Independent568$30$12 – $58

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$49
Median cash price$31
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

2,143 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $31 and the average of the middle 60% is $32; most fall between $12 and $60.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,143 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$14$31$53$98

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $98).

Of the 2,373 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,143 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,139 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,430 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,139
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here165
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 — excluded126
Hospitals that filed this code3,430

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 Uric Acid-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, “Uric acid test on urine or other fluid (CPT 84560) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84560-uric-acid-test-on-urine-or-other-fluid