Lab tests CPT 81003 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Urine dipstick, automated cost in Little Rock, AR — inpatient

In Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR, 3 hospitals list a cash price for urinalysis without microscope exam, automated as an inpatient: from $10.17 to $51.82, with a median of $10.27. The lowest listed price is at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center — $0.10 less than the median here. Across Arkansas, the median is $20.20 at 26 hospitals.

Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 81003, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Feb 28, 2026 and Feb 28, 2026.

Lowest$10.17St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center
Median$10.27half pay less
Highest$51.82in this market
Difference5.1×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 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR.

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Lowest $10.17Highest $51.82

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center lowest Sherwood, AR · (501) 552-7100 SVDOPS UA $10.17 $40.00 — 75% Feb 28, 2026
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St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center Little Rock, AR · (501) 552-3000 SVDOPS UA $10.27 $40.00 — 74% Feb 28, 2026
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St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center Sherwood, AR · (501) 552-7100 URINALYSIS MACROSCOPIC $11.44 $45.00 — 75% Feb 28, 2026
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Conway Regional Rehabilitation Hospital Conway, AR URINALYSIS NO MICRO EXAM $51.82 $51.82 — — —
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Inpatient: lowest $10.17, median $10.27, highest $51.82 — a 5.1× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 6 facilities here, median $15.24 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

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.