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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Maryland 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?

$7.08

Typical negotiated rate. In Maryland, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.08 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $6.31 to $7.59.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7 · 10th to 90th $5 to $12Professionalmedian $7 · 10th to 90th $5 to $10
$5$10$20facility $7professional $7

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$9.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$8.91
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$8.71
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$12.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$23.44
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$14.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$7.94
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.72
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
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
$3.47
Median
$3.55
Typical High
$3.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.41
Median
$1.41
Typical High
$1.41

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 50th of 51

$7.08

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.