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Best-value hospitals for urinalysis.

Ranked on a composite of cash-pay price (low is good) and CMS Care Compare rating (high is good). The top of this list is where price and quality both work in your favor. National rankings. CPT code 81002.

1
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, CO
5/5 CMS
$11
2
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, CA
5/5 CMS
$12
3
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC
5/5 CMS
$14
4
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
5/5 CMS
$14
5
University of Utah Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT
5/5 CMS
$14
6
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
5/5 CMS
$15
7
Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin
Austin, TX
4/5 CMS
$11
8
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
5/5 CMS
$15
9
Ascension Seton Northwest Hospital
Austin, TX
4/5 CMS
$11
10
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
4/5 CMS
$12

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How "best value" is computed.

Each hospital gets two ranks: one by cash-pay price (cheapest = rank 1) and one by CMS overall rating (highest = rank 1). The two are summed; the lowest sum is the best value. Ties broken by price.

Hospitals without a published CMS rating (specialty, pediatric, cancer-only) are excluded from this ranking because the composite would be meaningless. They show up on the procedure overview page instead.

This is one heuristic. Some patients reasonably weight rating heavier than price, others the reverse. The comparison tool lets you sort by price-only, rating-only, or this same composite, and add your insurance for plan-specific numbers.