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.
Original text from hospital filings
87070 BACTERIAL CULTURE
Low
$0
Average
$157
Median
$19
High
$6.4k
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $9 | $15 | $6 | 43% | 3,105–3,132 | $8 – $161 |
| 2 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $17 | $24 | $18 | 74% | 1,394–8,963 | $8 – $82 |
| 3 | Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Kittanning, PA | $21 | $22 | $8 | 36% | 1,192 | $7 – $108 |
| 4 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $11 | $28 | $43 | 154% | 1,191–2,640 | $8 – $408 |
| 5 | Samaritan Medical Center Watertown, NY | $9 | $38 | $41 | 109% | 1,019–1,082 | $8 – $116 |
| 6 | Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Peoria, IL | $11 | $11 | — | — | 1,016 | $7 – $155 |
| 7 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center GRENADA, MS | $9 | $13 | $5 | 42% | 839–857 | $8 – $54 |
| 8 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $12 | $20 | $22 | 109% | 602–629 | $8 – $165 |
| 9 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $12 | $13 | $4 | 33% | 596–614 | $7 – $487 |
| 10 | St Josephs Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY | $547 | $459 | $241 | 53% | 592–745 | $8 – $1.8k |
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