Columbus → Urine test with microscope
Urine test with microscope in Columbus
Across 5 of 13 hospitals, the self-pay price runs from $8 to $36 — 4.6× the price for the same billing code.
For scale: Medicare’s lab fee schedule pays $3.17 for this code, nationwide (2026).
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctors Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $8 | $12 | $3–$12 | C |
| Grant Medical Center OhioHealth · Columbus | $8 | $12 | $3–$12 | C |
| Riverside Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $8 | $12 | $3–$12 | C |
| Dublin Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Dublin | $8 | $12 | $3–$12 | C |
| Mount Carmel St. Ann's mountcarmelhealth.com · Westerville | $13–$4,278 varies | $20 | $3–$7,902 | C |
| Mount Carmel East mountcarmelhealth.com · Columbus | $13–$1,150 varies | $20 | $3–$324 | C |
| Mount Carmel Grove City Mount Carmel Health System (Trinity Health) · Grove City | $13–$445 varies | $20 | $3–$212 | C |
| Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital mountcarmelhealth.com · New Albany | $13–$424 varies | $20 | $3–$69 | C |
| Diley Ridge Medical Center mountcarmelhealth.com · Canal Winchester | $13–$356 varies | $20 | $3–$55 | C |
| Mount Carmel Dublin mountcarmelhealth.com · Dublin | $13–$766 varies | $20 | $3–$435 | C |
| Nationwide Children's Hospital nationwidechildrens.org · Columbus | $36 | $40 | $10–$39 | C |
| Ohio State University Hospitals wexnermedical.osu.edu · Columbus | not published | $31 | $3–$31 | F |
| James Cancer Hospital OSU Wexner Medical Center · Columbus | not published | $31 | $7–$29 | F |
What these three numbers mean
Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.
Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →
Billing code CPT 81001 —
Urinalysis with microscopy. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's
own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.