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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Iowa 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?

$15.85

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15.85 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $13.49 from a physician practice, and about $25.12 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$13.49$7.94 to $26.30
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$25.12$14.45 to $44.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $25 · 10th to 90th $9 to $78Professionalmedian $13 · 10th to 90th $6 to $62
$10$20$50$100facility $25professional $13

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
$27.54
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$67.61
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$22.39
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$60.26
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$48.98
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$24.55
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$12.59
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$11.48
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$21.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$23.99
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 11th of 51

$15.85

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.