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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Minnesota 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?

$10.47

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.47 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $20.89 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$7.94 to $11.48
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$20.89$8.91 to $29.51

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $21 · 10th to 90th $9 to $60Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $7 to $18
$5$10$20$50$100facility $21professional $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
$8.91
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$20.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$19.05
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$52.48
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$9.33
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$87.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$18.20
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$69.18
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$17.78
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$69.18
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$21.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$21.88
4 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$4.47
Typical High
$4.47
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.78
Median
$1.78
Typical High
$1.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$4.47
Typical High
$5.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.78
Median
$1.78
Typical High
$2.29

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 21st of 51

$10.47

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.