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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Florida 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?

$8.71

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.71 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.32 from a physician practice, and about $35.48 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 8 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$7.76 to $8.71
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$35.48$11.48 to $47.86

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $6 to $112Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $7 to $18
$2$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $35professional $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
$7.59
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$21.38
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$6.61
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$13.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$26.92
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$18.62
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$2.45
Typical High
$2.45
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$11.22
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.57
Median
$2.82
Typical High
$3.55
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$11.75
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$13.18
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.24
Median
$4.90
Typical High
$9.33

Where Florida 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.

Florida· 46th of 51

$8.71

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.