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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Alabama 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?

$9.33

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.33 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.91 from a physician practice, and about $10.96 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 5 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$8.91$8.32 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10.96$10.23 to $14.13

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11 · 10th to 90th $9 to $25Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $17
$5$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $11professional $9

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
$9.33
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$16.98
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$6.61
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$15.85
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$9.55
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$29.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.17
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$33.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$11.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$13.18

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 40th of 51

$9.33

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.