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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Missouri 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?

$8.13

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.13 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.76 from a physician practice, and about $16.60 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$6.76$4.68 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$16.60$12.30 to $32.36

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $17 · 10th to 90th $9 to $60Professionalmedian $7 · 10th to 90th $3 to $17
$5$10$20$50facility $17professional $7

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
$8.13
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$18.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$10.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$43.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$16.98
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$36.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$53.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$19.95
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$60.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$12.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$8.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$12.59
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
$3.98
Median
$4.07
Typical High
$5.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.58
Median
$1.62
Typical High
$2.19

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 36th of 51

$8.13

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.