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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Arizona 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 Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.33 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.32 from a physician practice, and about $19.50 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$8.32$7.08 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$19.50$12.88 to $38.02

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $19 · 10th to 90th $9 to $47Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $6 to $62
$5$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $19professional $8

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
$12.88
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$54.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$61.66
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$9.33
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$44.67
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$38.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$30.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$14.45
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$60.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$8.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$9.33

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 37th 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.