Blood culture test for bacteria

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

HC CULTURE BLOOD

Payers reporting CPT 87040

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$266

Median

$79

High

$3.8k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	248	$15	$29	$42	145%	1,543–1,993	$2 – $384
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	608	$18	$36	$53	147%	1,361–1,946	$1 – $673
3	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	330	$11	$13	$10	79%	1,028–1,100	$1 – $193
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	895	$11	$18	$45	253%	856–1,810	$1 – $1.3k
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	821	$14	$38	$214	557%	611–1,070	$0 – $8.4k
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	578	$23	$29	$50	173%	379–595	$1 – $587
7	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	613	$10	$27	$47	170%	196–421	$1 – $456
8	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	117	$12	$13	$10	75%	193–265	$1 – $95
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	132	$11	$36	$82	226%	178–313	$5 – $781
10	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	124	$10	$11	$6	57%	46	$5 – $48
11	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	6	$10	$10	$1	6%	39–129	$10 – $12
12	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$34	$128	$184	144%	35	$9 – $1.0k
13	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$12	$12	—	—	12	$12 – $12
14	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	152	$10	$11	$1	12%	9–90	$6 – $18
15	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	1	$77	$77	$18	24%	8–80	$60 – $114
16	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	28	$31	$28	$6	22%	7–70	$11 – $35
17	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	85	$10	$58	$127	218%	3–30	$1 – $580
18	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	67	$11	$82	$96	117%	3–30	$9 – $265
19	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	355	$11	$12	$4	38%	2–20	$6 – $65
20	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +21 other terms	40	$13	$27	$22	82%	1–10	$9 – $127
21	Medical Mutual fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	26	$13	$24	$27	111%	1–10	$9 – $147
22	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	198	$10	$10	$0	2%	—	$10 – $12
23	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	168	$20	$22	$7	34%	—	$8 – $32
24	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	140	$18	$20	$16	81%	—	$6 – $240
25	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	126	$10	$14	$28	193%	—	$5 – $288

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