Anaerobic bacterial culture with quantity count

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Exp-Culture, Bact; Ana

Payers reporting CPT 87073

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$47

Median

$25

High

$576

Payer rate distribution

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	439	$14	$23	$30	132%	1–10	$1 – $366
2	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	169	$12	$20	$22	109%	1–10	$2 – $284
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	682	$10	$12	$21	174%	—	$3 – $377
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	635	$10	$50	$410	822%	—	$0 – $8.4k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	466	$10	$20	$25	123%	—	$7 – $126
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	439	$18	$23	$16	68%	—	$4 – $102
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	281	$10	$10	$2	19%	—	$7 – $30
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	251	$11	$12	$9	74%	—	$1 – $193
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	194	$10	$10	$0	3%	—	$9 – $11
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	166	$19	$21	$7	33%	—	$9 – $30
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	127	$10	$10	$1	7%	—	$8 – $16
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	101	$16	$17	$4	23%	—	$10 – $25
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	86	$10	$14	$14	104%	—	$4 – $128
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	75	$9	$9	$1	7%	—	$5 – $10
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	69	$10	$10	$2	24%	—	$7 – $19
16	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	50	$10	$10	$1	9%	—	$8 – $13
17	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	49	$10	$10	$0	2%	—	$10 – $10
18	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	49	$9	$9	$0	5%	—	$9 – $11
19	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	47	$10	$18	$34	185%	—	$8 – $161
20	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	42	$9	$9	$2	26%	—	$5 – $23
21	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	40	$10	$10	$3	28%	—	$3 – $25
22	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	37	$10	$14	$20	144%	—	$8 – $126
23	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	33	$35	$37	$18	48%	—	$10 – $83
24	Healthcare Highways fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	29	$23	$24	$5	19%	—	$13 – $28
25	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	28	$12	$11	$3	31%	—	$1 – $14

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