Orange County → Urine test with microscope
Urine test with microscope in Orange County
Across 16 of 22 hospitals, the self-pay price runs from $3 to $246 — 82.0× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Grove Hospital & Medical Center gardengrovehospital.com · Garden Grove | $3 | $312 | $3–$5 | B |
| Huntington Beach Hospital hbhospital.org · Huntington Beach | $3 | $221 | $3–$5 | B |
| La Palma Intercommunity Hospital lapalmaintercommunityhospital.com · La Palma | $3 | $221 | $3–$5 | B |
| West Anaheim Medical Center westanaheimmedctr.com · Anaheim | $3 | $221 | $3–$5 | B |
| Orange County Global Medical Center orangecountyglobalmedicalcenter.com · Santa Ana | $17 | $17 | $3–$17 | C |
| Anaheim Global Medical Center anaheimglobalmedicalcenter.com · Anaheim | $17 | $17 | $3–$17 | C |
| Coastal Communities Hospital southcoastglobalmedicalcenter.com · Santa Ana | $17 | $17 | $3–$17 | C |
| Chapman Global Medical Center chapmanglobalmedicalcenter.com · Orange | $17 | $17 | $3–$17 | C |
| Memorialcare Saddleback Medical Center memorialcare.org · Laguna Hills | $23–$340 varies | $23 | $2–$34 | C |
| Memorialcare Orange Coast Medical Center memorialcare.org · Fountain Valley | $23–$340 varies | $23 | $3–$38 | C |
| Providence St. Joseph Hospital providence.org · Orange | $47–$52 varies | $74 | — | C |
| Uci Health - Los Alamitos ucihealth.org · Los Alamitos | $69 | $172 | $3–$8 | C |
| Uci Health - Fountain Valley ucihealth.org · Fountain Valley | $69 | $172 | $3–$8 | C |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian hoag.org · Newport Beach | $70 | $107 | $3–$18 | D |
| Hoag Orthopedic Institute hoag.org · Irvine | $70 | $107 | $3–$18 | D |
| Providence Mission Hospital providence.org · Mission Viejo | $90–$95 varies | $188 | $3–$241 | C |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County - Anaheim healthy.kaiserpermanente.org · Anaheim | $93 | $179 | $2–$6 | B |
| Providence St. Jude Medical Center providence.org · Fullerton | $143 | $298 | $3–$241 | C |
| Ahmc Anaheim Regional Medical Center ahmchealth.com · Anaheim | $238 | $238 | $2–$238 | C |
| Children's Hospital of Orange County choc.org · Orange | $246 | $246 | $3–$246 | D |
| Children's Hospital at Mission missionhealth.org · Mission Viejo | not published | — | $3–$4 | D |
| Anaheim Community Hospital, Llc anaheimcommunityhospital.com · Anaheim | not published | $111 | — | 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.