Lab tests CPT 81001 Connecticut Outpatient

Urinalysis, automated cost in Connecticut

In Connecticut, 9 hospitals publish a cash price for urinalysis with microscope exam, automated: from $5.50 to $50.00, with a median of $13.58. The lowest price is at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Hartford). The highest price is 9.1× the lowest.

The median here, $13.58, is 68% below the US median of $42.22.
That is 4.3× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($3.17).
Connecticut has the lowest median of 51 states with at least 5 hospitals pricing this code.
1 of 9 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Connecticut law (C.G.S. §19a-673): if you are uninsured, your income is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and Medicaid has turned you down, a hospital and the clinicians billing through it may collect no more than the cost of your care (its charges times its cost-to-charge ratio), which is usually well below its list price. Ask the billing office to apply it. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 81001. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$5.50Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Median$13.58half of hospitals charge less

Highest$50.00in Connecticut

Lowest saves$8.08vs the median

Hospitals in Connecticut, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center lowest Hartford · Hartford, CT HC Quest Urinalysis With Microscopy Automated	$5.50	$10.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Johnson Memorial Hospital Stafford Springs · Stafford Springs, CT HC Urinalysis With Microscopy Automated	$7.70	$14.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Saint Marys Hospital Waterbury · Waterbury, CT HC Quest Urinalysis With Microscopy Automated	$7.70	$14.00	Mar 31, 2026 source file
Connecticut Children's Hartford · Hartford, CT Urinal-Diagnostic	$7.89	$13.15	Jan 1, 2026 source file
Day Kimball Healthcare Putnam · Putnam, CT URINALYSIS	$13.58	$35.65	Aug 1, 2026 source file
Gaylord Hospital Wallingford · Wallingford, CT Urine Macro/Micro	$24.48	$34.97	Apr 21, 2026 source file
John Dempsey Hospital of the University of Connecticut Farmington · Farmington, CT HC URINALYSIS	$26.40	$44.00	Jul 1, 2026 source file
Manchester Memorial Hospital Manchester · Manchester, CT URINALYSIS AUTO W/MICROSCOPIC	$44.76	$44.76	Apr 1, 2026 source file
UConn Health, Waterbury Hospital Waterbury · Waterbury, CT Myoglobin Urine Screening	$50.00	$100.00	May 13, 2026 source file

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Hartford, CT	2	$5.50	$6.70
Waterbury, CT	2	$7.70	$28.85
Farmington, CT	1	$26.40	$26.40
Manchester, CT	1	$44.76	$44.76
Putnam, CT	1	$13.58	$13.58
Stafford Springs, CT	1	$7.70	$7.70
Wallingford, CT	1	$24.48	$24.48

Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.

Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.

Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.

Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

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Urinalysis with microscope exam, automated in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.