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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Colorado 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?

$10.23

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.23 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.24 from a physician practice, and about $26.92 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$7.24$6.46 to $9.33
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.92$16.60 to $33.11

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $27 · 10th to 90th $7 to $44Professionalmedian $7 · 10th to 90th $5 to $17
$5$10$20$50facility $27professional $7

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
$7.24
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$33.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$13.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$43.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$19.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$28.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.90
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$13.49
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$19.05
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$37.15
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$19.95
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$6.92
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
$3.55
Median
$3.63
Typical High
$4.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.41
Median
$1.45
Typical High
$1.91

Where Colorado 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.

Colorado· 22nd of 51

$10.23

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.