Urine dipstick, automated cost in Fayetteville, NC
In Fayetteville, NC, 3 hospitals list a cash price for urinalysis without microscope exam, automated: from $34.80 to $34.80, with a median of $34.80. The lowest listed price is at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and 2 other hospitals. Across North Carolina, the median is $49.28 at 56 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 2 cities for code 81003, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Fayetteville, NC.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Fear Valley Medical Center lowest Fayetteville, NC · (910) 609-4000 AUTOMATED URINALYSIS TEST | $34.80 | $58.00 | $2.25–$91.00 | 40% | — source file |
| Cape Fear Valley - Hoke Hospital lowest Raeford, NC · (910) 904-8000 AUTOMATED URINALYSIS TEST | $34.80 | $58.00 | $2.25–$68.00 | 40% | — source file |
| Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital lowest Fayetteville, NC AUTOMATED URINALYSIS TEST | $34.80 | $58.00 | $2.25–$91.00 | 40% | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $34.80, median $34.80, highest $34.80.
Cash or insurance?
At 3 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What it is
An automated urinalysis without microscopy tests a urine sample on a machine that reads the chemical dipstick results. It checks for protein, sugar, blood, ketones and signs of infection, without a microscope exam of cells.
What the price covers
The price covers the automated chemical test. A microscope exam or urine culture is billed separately if done.
3 rows held back from this comparison
They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 81003 ($27.50). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| Cape Fear Valley Medical Center Fayetteville, NCURINALYSIS AUTO W/O SCOPE | $1.17 | file |
| Cape Fear Valley - Hoke Hospital Raeford, NCURINALYSIS AUTO W/O SCOPE | $1.17 | file |
| Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital Fayetteville, NCURINALYSIS AUTO W/O SCOPE | $1.17 | file |