Bacterial culture of urine, blood, or stool

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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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

87070 BACTERIAL CULTURE

Payers reporting CPT 87070

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	898	$8.77	$19.59	$0.01 – $2,383
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	818	$12.23	$44.37	$1.00 – $527.10
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	615	$8.77	$23.93	$0.01 – $560.48
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	611	$15.36	$36.41	$0.79 – $2,052
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	582	$19.60	$27.96	$3.92 – $1,560
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	353	$8.88	$11.95	$6.17 – $88.86
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	336	$9.68	$10.21	$1.05 – $192.78
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	250	$12.36	$20.65	$1.56 – $397.98
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	198	$8.62	$8.82	$8.45 – $9.69
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	168	$16.66	$17.18	$8.23 – $26.38
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	152	$8.67	$8.58	$5.17 – $14.70
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	140	$15.17	$14.69	$4.62 – $21.98
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	134	$9.29	$23.00	$4.32 – $731.50
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	125	$8.28	$8.66	$4.51 – $29.31
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	124	$8.46	$13.09	$0.01 – $249.77
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	123	$151.97	$133.60	$5.32 – $1,111
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	116	$10.14	$20.00	$1.08 – $124.40
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	104	$15.14	$44.83	$2.46 – $4,000
19	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	90	$8.62	$31.65	$6.29 – $732.00
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$35.60	$98.53	$6.40 – $738.65
21	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	70	$8.46	$9.85	$3.92 – $100.76
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	69	$8.61	$8.84	$4.24 – $20.33
23	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	65	$9.05	$107.17	$7.24 – $279.00
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	60	$8.80	$9.65	$1.13 – $26.83
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	58	$8.62	$9.86	$2.97 – $50.22

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