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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Alaska rates for HCPCS 87046

When a stool culture grows bacteria beyond the two most common intestinal disease-causing types, this covers the extra laboratory work of isolating and identifying each additional organism found. It is billed alongside the primary stool culture, not as a stand-alone test. This more thorough identification helps pinpoint a less common cause of an intestinal infection.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms cost?

$21.38

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $21.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $21.38 from a physician practice, and about $29.51 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$21.38$9.33 to $31.62
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$29.51$8.51 to $60.26

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $30 · 10th to 90th $9 to $74Professionalmedian $21 · 10th to 90th $8 to $38
$10$20$50$100facility $30professional $21

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$26.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$13.49
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$9.33
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$30.20
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$60.26
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$46.77
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$8.51
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$29.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$91.20

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 4.7 times more in West Virginia than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Alaska· 3rd of 51

$21.38

WV $38.90DC $8.32

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.