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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Louisiana 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?

$10.00

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.00 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $7.94 from a physician practice, and about $12.30 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$7.94$5.50 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$12.30$9.33 to $20.89

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12 · 10th to 90th $9 to $35Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $4 to $13
$5$10$20$50facility $12professional $8

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
$10.00
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$23.99
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$2.57
Typical High
$9.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$12.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$5.75
Typical High
$6.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$2.29
Typical High
$2.45
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$6.61
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$35.48
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$14.13
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$57.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$10.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$13.18

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 23rd of 51

$10.00

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.