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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Georgia 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?

$6.31

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.31 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4.90 from a physician practice, and about $12.59 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$4.90$4.27 to $13.18
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$12.59$9.33 to $19.95

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $13 · 10th to 90th $7 to $32Professionalmedian $5 · 10th to 90th $3 to $17
$5$10$20$50facility $13professional $5

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
$6.31
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$17.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$16.60
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$5.75
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$32.36
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.95
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$16.98
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$5.89
Typical High
$5.89
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$50.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$14.45
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$34.67
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$19.95
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
$3.16
Median
$3.98
Typical High
$4.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.26
Median
$1.58
Typical High
$1.82

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 51st of 51

$6.31

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.