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.
Original text from hospital filings
Culture, bacterial; any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic, with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates
Spruce Pine, NC
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Blue Ridge Regional Hospital’s median price of $23 is 17% above the median hospital's median price ($19), higher than 54% of the 2,618 hospitals reporting CPT 87070. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 5 payers, 6 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
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| 1 | Devoted mcr percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $1.77 | $1.77 | $1.77 – $1.77 |
| 2 | Cigna Healthspring mcr percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $17.56 | $17.56 | $17.56 – $17.56 |
| 3 | WellCare mcr percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $22.66 | $22.66 | $22.66 – $22.66 |
| 4 | Humana mcr percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $40.22 | $40.22 | $40.22 – $40.22 |
| 5 | UnitedHealthcare vaccn percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $44.21 | $44.21 | $44.21 – $44.21 |
| 6 | Humana stateemployees percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $53.16 | $53.16 | $53.16 – $53.16 |
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026
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