Urine culture cost in New Jersey

In New Jersey, 50 hospitals publish a cash price for urine culture for bacteria, with colony count: from $8.00 to $1,221.00, with a median of $9.28. The lowest price is at Saint Marys Hospital (Passaic). The highest price is 152.6× the lowest.

• The median here, $9.28, is 86% below the US median of $67.86.
• That is 1.1× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($8.07).
• New Jersey has the lowest median of 51 states with at least 5 hospitals pricing this code.
• 9 of 50 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Why New Jersey prices look low: under state law (P.L.2008, c.60), a hospital may not charge an uninsured New Jersey resident whose family income is below 500% of the federal poverty level more than 115% of what Medicare pays for the same service. If that is you, ask the hospital's billing office to apply this limit; a separate physician fee may still apply. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 87086. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 12, 2026. See them on a map