Stool culture for bacteria, each organism

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB Culture, Stool, Additional Pathogen

Payers reporting CPT 87046

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Average

$42

Median

$34

High

$162

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	844	$10	$14	$19	133%	581–914	$1 – $313
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	578	$15	$25	$27	106%	442–937	$1 – $367
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	778	$12	$49	$298	611%	125–368	$0 – $8.4k
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	238	$12	$16	$18	115%	119–164	$1 – $284
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	533	$19	$27	$24	89%	103–211	$4 – $195
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	318	$10	$11	$9	80%	88–115	$1 – $193
7	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	4	$10	$11	$1	11%	45–54	$10 – $12
8	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	579	$10	$23	$31	130%	25–142	$1 – $181
9	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	28	$29	$24	$6	25%	19–64	$10 – $32
10	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$11	$11	—	—	12	$11 – $11
11	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	335	$10	$12	$8	68%	4–40	$2 – $143
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	126	$15	$14	$7	51%	2–20	$3 – $55
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	121	$9	$8	$2	27%	2–20	$2 – $32
14	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	104	$10	$19	$18	95%	2–20	$1 – $71
15	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	151	$9	$10	$1	13%	1–10	$6 – $16
16	Medical Mutual fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	26	$12	$23	$25	109%	1–10	$9 – $139
17	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	23	$26	$48	$42	88%	1–10	$9 – $225
18	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$22	$22	—	—	1–10	$22 – $22
19	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	199	$9	$10	$0	2%	—	$9 – $11
20	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	168	$18	$20	$7	34%	—	$3 – $29
21	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	129	$10	$14	$22	154%	—	$2 – $258
22	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	121	$91	$78	$64	83%	—	$7 – $368
23	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	112	$9	$11	$15	132%	—	$6 – $143
24	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	84	$9	$27	$46	170%	—	$2 – $231
25	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	74	$21	$37	$50	135%	—	$7 – $299

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