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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Kansas 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?

$18.62

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.62 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $19.95 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$9.33$5.62 to $14.45
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$19.95$18.62 to $28.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $20 · 10th to 90th $12 to $30Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $19
$5$10$20$50facility $20professional $9

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
$9.33
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$29.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$10.00
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$6.61
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$29.51
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$14.45
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$21.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$25.70
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$17.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$19.50
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
$4.07
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$5.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.62
Median
$1.91
Typical High
$2.00

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 2nd of 51

$18.62

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.