Bacterial culture screening test

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
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Exp-Culture, Bact; Screen Sing

Payers reporting CPT 87081

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 · +38 other terms	874	$6.72	$13.52	$0.01 – $562.32
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	799	$8.95	$46.00	$1.00 – $1,088
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	602	$11.67	$31.52	$0.50 – $1,801
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	590	$6.70	$21.40	$0.01 – $422.26
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	557	$14.23	$23.28	$2.47 – $1,088
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	343	$6.83	$11.99	$3.94 – $140.67
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	330	$7.43	$8.25	$0.86 – $192.78
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	248	$9.72	$16.75	$1.20 – $284.46
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	198	$6.63	$6.72	$6.50 – $7.46
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	168	$12.82	$13.20	$5.25 – $20.29
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	152	$6.67	$6.66	$3.98 – $11.31
12	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	134	$7.22	$15.24	$2.41 – $646.80
13	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	133	$10.88	$13.79	$4.31 – $185.59
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	124	$120.22	$118.90	$4.69 – $688.80
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	121	$6.63	$6.64	$3.47 – $22.54
16	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	115	$6.47	$8.61	$2.90 – $292.38
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	113	$7.66	$22.52	$1.08 – $196.40
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	84	$6.63	$16.02	$6.50 – $261.08
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	81	$10.28	$38.29	$4.41 – $7,210
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	72	$20.98	$53.67	$4.40 – $422.45
21	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	69	$7.38	$7.70	$0.88 – $26.83
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	69	$6.62	$6.93	$3.55 – $18.34
23	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	65	$6.96	$88.43	$5.57 – $217.30
24	Medicare fee schedule · both · +15 other terms	64	$6.63	$6.76	$6.63 – $8.95
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	51	$6.63	$8.40	$2.20 – $109.69

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