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; blood, aerobic, with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates (includes anaerobic culture, if appropriate)
Ashland City, TN
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Tristar Ashland City Medical Center’s median price of $14 is 30% below the median hospital's median price ($21), higher than 36% of the 2,505 hospitals reporting CPT 87040. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Mar 1, 2026
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