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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Idaho 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?

$16.22

Typical negotiated rate. In Idaho, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16.22 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.96 from a physician practice, and about $33.11 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 7 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$10.96$8.91 to $18.62
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$33.11$14.79 to $45.71

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $33 · 10th to 90th $9 to $72Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $22
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $33professional $11

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
$21.88
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$47.86
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$40.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$13.49
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.30
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$33.88
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$10.00
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$37.15
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$15.49

Where Idaho 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.

Idaho· 9th of 51

$16.22

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.