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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Delaware 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?

$10.96

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.96 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.76 from a physician practice, and about $28.84 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 4 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$7.76$7.41 to $13.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.84$10.96 to $57.54

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $29 · 10th to 90th $11 to $138Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $7 to $28
$10$20$50$100facility $29professional $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
$10.96
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$28.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$6.17
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$17.78
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$63.10
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$13.18

Where Delaware 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.

Delaware· 30th of 51

$10.96

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.