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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Arkansas 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 October 2026.

How much does Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms cost?

$10.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.51 from a physician practice, and about $11.22 from a hospital or other facility.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$8.51$6.61 to $14.79
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$11.22$10.72 to $14.79

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11 · 10th to 90th $11 to $15Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $4 to $16
$5$10$20facility $11professional $9

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$17.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$14.79
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$9.33
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$14.79
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$15.85
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$9.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$13.49
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$10.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$13.18
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$3.72
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$7.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.48
Median
$2.95
Typical High
$2.95

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 5.0 times more in Alaska than in Georgia. 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.

Arkansas· 13th of 51

$10.72

AK $31.62GA $6.31

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.