Bacterial culture with quantity count, not 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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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Bacterial Cx Cf Respiratory

Payers reporting CPT 87071

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$58

Median

$37

High

$220

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	279	$11	$12	$9	75%	34–43	$1 – $193
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	750	$10	$12	$13	104%	31–67	$1 – $313
3	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	188	$14	$21	$26	125%	4–40	$4 – $399
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	487	$15	$29	$46	159%	3–30	$1 – $681
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	517	$10	$23	$28	124%	2–20	$1 – $136
6	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	61	$20	$39	$90	229%	1–10	$8 – $479
7	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	703	$13	$39	$256	656%	—	$0 – $8.4k
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	483	$19	$24	$19	79%	—	$5 – $298
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	303	$10	$11	$4	37%	—	$7 – $58
10	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	189	$10	$10	$0	3%	—	$10 – $11
11	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	165	$19	$21	$7	34%	—	$10 – $30
12	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	142	$10	$10	$1	10%	—	$6 – $17
13	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	117	$16	$14	$5	35%	—	$5 – $50
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	104	$9	$9	$3	31%	—	$4 – $34
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	104	$10	$28	$66	236%	—	$5 – $420
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	97	$10	$15	$13	88%	—	$1 – $67
17	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	84	$89	$85	$98	114%	—	$1 – $489
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	77	$10	$15	$15	103%	—	$10 – $155
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	74	$10	$10	$1	8%	—	$8 – $12
20	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	59	$10	$38	$40	104%	—	$8 – $200
21	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	53	$10	$11	$5	49%	—	$1 – $27
22	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	47	$10	$10	$0	2%	—	$10 – $10
23	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	44	$18	$22	$14	65%	—	$5 – $64
24	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	44	$10	$11	$4	40%	—	$3 – $35
25	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	40	$10	$10	$1	6%	—	$10 – $15

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