Special stain smear for microscopic examination

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

HC CRYPTOSPORIDIUM AND COCCIDIA EXAM FECAL; SMEAR SPECIAL STAIN

Payers reporting CPT 87207

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$55

Median

$42

High

$201

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1	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	243	$9	$17	$27	160%	11–110	$1 – $398
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	590	$11	$20	$29	144%	8–80	$1 – $462
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	860	$6	$10	$19	195%	6–60	$0 – $465
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	552	$14	$16	$23	140%	5–50	$3 – $453
5	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	81	$6	$13	$20	154%	2–20	$6 – $130
6	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$14	$14	—	—	2–20	$14 – $14
7	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	801	$8	$32	$270	838%	1–10	$0 – $8.4k
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	324	$7	$8	$9	116%	1–10	$1 – $193
9	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	114	$6	$6	$2	31%	1–10	$3 – $20
10	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$10	$11	$1	11%	1–10	$10 – $12
11	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	579	$6	$15	$21	138%	—	$1 – $247
12	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	331	$6	$7	$5	74%	—	$4 – $119
13	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	198	$6	$6	$0	2%	—	$6 – $7
14	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	168	$12	$13	$4	35%	—	$6 – $29
15	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	152	$6	$6	$1	13%	—	$4 – $10
16	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	133	$10	$10	$10	97%	—	$4 – $106
17	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	129	$7	$15	$32	214%	—	$2 – $430
18	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	122	$71	$77	$83	108%	—	$5 – $528
19	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	109	$7	$9	$13	150%	—	$1 – $239
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	107	$6	$9	$20	231%	—	$3 – $174
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$21	$37	$58	154%	—	$5 – $426
22	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	71	$9	$15	$13	85%	—	$4 – $59
23	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	70	$6	$6	$1	21%	—	$3 – $9
24	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	66	$6	$38	$27	72%	—	$5 – $127
25	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	63	$6	$7	$3	46%	—	$1 – $27

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