Blood culture test for bacteria and fungi identification

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Nfct ds bact&fng org id bld cul rrna fish 6+trgt

Payers reporting CPT 0086U

Payer pricing summary

Low

$64

Average

$279

Median

$236

High

$662

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	618	$201	$226	$148	66%	—	$72 – $1.8k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	532	$205	$304	$263	87%	—	$109 – $4.3k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	394	$200	$217	$77	36%	—	$154 – $800
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	375	$204	$226	$237	105%	—	$1 – $1.9k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	327	$349	$486	$319	66%	—	$91 – $2.0k
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	256	$206	$213	$33	15%	—	$197 – $398
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	201	$295	$288	$122	42%	—	$77 – $600
8	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	193	$200	$202	$6	3%	—	$196 – $231
9	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	160	$387	$431	$143	33%	—	$196 – $612
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	147	$220	$397	$404	102%	—	$10 – $1.6k
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	124	$208	$204	$6	3%	—	$200 – $216
12	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	77	$204	$277	$133	48%	—	$160 – $748
13	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	76	$352	$366	$86	24%	—	$200 – $510
14	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	48	$204	$227	$50	22%	—	$187 – $390
15	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient	42	$210	$211	$8	4%	—	$200 – $320
16	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	41	$204	$205	$4	2%	—	$200 – $210
17	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	41	$200	$274	$118	43%	—	$196 – $574
18	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	32	$110	$108	$45	42%	—	$33 – $214
19	Regence facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	26	$212	$246	$108	44%	—	$170 – $600
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	24	$200	$196	$10	5%	—	$176 – $217
21	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	21	$200	$199	$58	29%	—	$68 – $518
22	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	20	$200	$269	$94	35%	—	$200 – $400
23	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	20	$196	$197	$2	1%	—	$196 – $200
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	19	$270	$255	$34	13%	—	$200 – $300
25	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	19	$605	$594	$98	16%	—	$204 – $679

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