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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Kentucky 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?

$7.59

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.59 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5.62 from a physician practice, and about $9.33 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$5.62$2.75 to $9.12
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.33$7.76 to $14.13

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9 · 10th to 90th $6 to $19Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $2 to $12
$2$5$10$20$50facility $9professional $6

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
$1.20
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$17.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.20
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$10.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$14.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$10.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.09
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$9.33
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$13.18
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$15.49
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$19.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$45.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$13.18
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
$0.62
Median
$3.98
Typical High
$4.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.24
Median
$1.58
Typical High
$1.91

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 42nd of 51

$7.59

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.