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, typing; identification by nucleic acid sequencing method, each isolate (eg, sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene)
THORNTON, CO
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Hca Healthone Northeast Er’s median price of $187 is 35% above the median hospital's median price ($138), higher than 67% of the 2,015 hospitals reporting CPT 87153. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Mar 1, 2026
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