Microbial culture and identification 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.

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

HB Culture Typing Maldi Tof

Payers reporting CPT 87158

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$59

Median

$29

High

$380

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	432	$11	$18	$16	90%	4–40	$1 – $197
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	704	$8	$9	$15	165%	—	$0 – $439
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	671	$9	$46	$357	775%	—	$0 – $8.4k
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	479	$8	$17	$22	126%	—	$1 – $261
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	463	$15	$20	$24	120%	—	$2 – $428
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	299	$8	$9	$4	51%	—	$7 – $87
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	263	$9	$12	$65	540%	—	$1 – $1.8k
8	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	190	$8	$8	$0	3%	—	$8 – $9
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	184	$9	$15	$19	124%	—	$1 – $284
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	165	$15	$17	$6	33%	—	$8 – $24
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	126	$8	$8	$0	6%	—	$7 – $13
12	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	109	$8	$11	$11	102%	—	$2 – $95
13	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	107	$13	$14	$39	285%	—	$5 – $417
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	97	$7	$7	$0	6%	—	$4 – $8
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	90	$8	$13	$14	111%	—	$7 – $122
16	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	62	$8	$10	$4	42%	—	$8 – $22
17	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	52	$9	$9	$2	28%	—	$1 – $18
18	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	52	$8	$28	$27	96%	—	$7 – $165
19	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	48	$60	$50	$70	140%	—	$5 – $392
20	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	46	$8	$8	$0	2%	—	$8 – $8
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	45	$8	$17	$34	206%	—	$4 – $220
22	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	34	$8	$10	$24	236%	—	$6 – $226
23	Regence facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	26	$8	$10	$5	49%	—	$7 – $23
24	Healthcare Highways fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	25	$19	$18	$0	2%	—	$18 – $19
25	Medicare fee schedule · both · +7 other terms	25	$8	$8	—	—	—	$8 – $8

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