Lab tests CPT 81003 Outpatient

Urine dipstick, automated cost in Lake Havasu City, AZ

In Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ, 4 hospitals list a cash price for urinalysis without microscope exam, automated: from $62.65 to $160.55, with a median of $95.30. The lowest listed price is at Kingman Regional Medical Center — $32.65 less than the median here. Across Arizona, the median is $26.00 at 51 hospitals.

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 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 Apr 1, 2026 and Aug 14, 2026.

Lowest$62.65Kingman Regional Medical Center
Median$95.30half pay less
Highest$160.55in this market
Difference2.6×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ.

median
Lowest $62.65Highest $160.55

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Kingman Regional Medical Center lowest Kingman, AZ · (928) 757-2101 Automated urinalysis test $62.65 $179.00 $2.25–$196.90 65% Aug 14, 2026
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Western Arizona Regional Medical Center Bullhead City, AZ · (928) 763-2273 UA, AUTO, W-O SCOPE $77.94 $649.52 $1.53–$584.57 88% Apr 1, 2026
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Havasu Regional Medical Center Lake Havasu City, AZ · (928) 855-8185 Urinalysis, by dip stick or tablet reagent for bilirubin, glucose, hemoglobin, ketones, leukocytes, nitrite, pH, protein, specific gravity, urobilinogen, any number of these constituents; automated, without microscopy $112.66 $187.77 $2.25–$187.77 40% —
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Valley View Medical Center Fort Mohave, AZ · (928) 788-2273 Urinalysis, by dip stick or tablet reagent for bilirubin, glucose, hemoglobin, ketones, leukocytes, nitrite, pH, protein, specific gravity, urobilinogen, any number of these constituents; automated, without microscopy $160.55 $267.58 $3.67 40% —
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Outpatient: lowest $62.65, median $95.30, highest $160.55 — a 2.6× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $136.40. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 3 of 4 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.