CPT 87550

Tuberculosis bacteria test using DNA probe

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

Mycobacteria dna dir probe

Payer pricing summary

Low

$11

Average

$35

Median

$26

High

$215

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 35 Fee schedule 55 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 30 Other 25

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1	UnitedHealthcare other · outpatient · +3 other terms	43	$20	$30	$35	115%	—	$12 – $215
2	Humana other · outpatient · +4 other terms	42	$20	$30	$37	124%	—	$20 – $215
3	Aetna other · outpatient · +4 other terms	41	$38	$52	$41	78%	—	$18 – $215
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +5 other terms	33	$21	$29	$34	116%	—	$19 – $215
5	Ambetter other · inpatient · +1 other terms	31	$33	$31	$5	15%	—	$25 – $38
6	WellCare other · inpatient · +1 other terms	20	$20	$20	$0	2%	—	$20 – $21
7	Cigna other · outpatient · +1 other terms	18	$71	$79	$45	57%	—	$22 – $246
8	Molina other · outpatient · +4 other terms	17	$37	$41	$53	129%	—	$11 – $230
9	Oscar other · outpatient · +2 other terms	15	$32	$30	$2	7%	—	$28 – $32
10	Optum other · inpatient · +2 other terms	10	$20	$20	—	—	—	$20 – $20

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