Urine culture for bacterial growth

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

HC CULTURE URINE W/COLONY CT

Payers reporting CPT 87086

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	888	$8.21	$12.76	$1.00 – $756.72
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	815	$11.43	$24.34	$1.00 – $367.00
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	615	$8.21	$19.98	$1.10 – $321.75
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	607	$13.69	$26.65	$1.00 – $1,584
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	577	$17.70	$21.42	$1.30 – $377.79
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	350	$8.31	$9.10	$6.05 – $47.18
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	330	$9.19	$10.27	$1.05 – $192.78
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	249	$11.47	$20.83	$1.46 – $284.46
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	198	$8.07	$8.15	$7.91 – $9.33
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	168	$15.60	$17.02	$7.91 – $24.69
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	155	$8.11	$8.25	$4.84 – $42.84
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	137	$14.20	$14.33	$4.33 – $20.58
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	137	$8.81	$23.90	$3.98 – $338.00
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	125	$7.94	$8.32	$4.22 – $27.44
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	124	$7.92	$10.19	$3.52 – $165.00
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	123	$108.00	$131.26	$6.77 – $838.32
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	115	$9.32	$10.39	$1.08 – $64.96
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	90	$14.33	$29.00	$5.38 – $426.30
19	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	85	$8.07	$41.77	$6.48 – $408.97
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$27.80	$81.96	$6.78 – $538.92
21	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	65	$8.06	$8.35	$4.24 – $22.32
22	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	64	$7.92	$8.89	$7.91 – $59.84
23	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	64	$8.47	$35.02	$6.78 – $170.68
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	60	$8.31	$9.53	$1.06 – $26.83
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	55	$8.07	$9.05	$2.75 – $29.64

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