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
HC BODY FLUID CULTURE
Low
$4
Average
$2.2k
Median
$116
High
$3374.6k
Filter by billing methodology
Reflects a negotiated percentage of total billed charges.
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 1676 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 9.6× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
Click a bar to filter the hospitals table to that price range.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Elizabeths Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis O'Fallon, IL | $279 | $229 | $72 | 31% | 2,907–3,150 | $7 – $279 |
| 2 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $247 | $225 | $69 | 31% | 2,597–3,209 | $7 – $289 |
| 3 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $77 | $70 | $9 | 12% | 2,555–2,879 | $9 – $85 |
| 4 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $95 | $92 | $22 | 24% | 2,494–2,503 | $44 – $124 |
| 5 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $107 | $102 | $26 | 26% | 2,485–2,620 | $8 – $145 |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $83 | $80 | $11 | 14% | 2,327–3,677 | $8 – $87 |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $66 | $88 | $40 | 46% | 2,033–2,087 | $15 – $165 |
| 8 | St Anthonys Memorial Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Mattoon, IL | $41 | $73 | $58 | 79% | 1,854 | $5 – $145 |
| 9 | Holland Community Hospital Holland, MI | $27 | $35 | $19 | 53% | 1,848 | $3 – $65 |
| 10 | Mercy Health Lakeshore Campus Shelby, MI | $74 | $71 | $11 | 16% | 1,704–5,736 | $6 – $78 |
Ask Claude or any MCP client for CPT 87070 pricing at a specific hospital — see how to connect.