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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 July 2026.

How much does Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms cost?

$15.85

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15.85 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.96 from a physician practice, and about $18.20 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$10.96$7.94 to $22.39
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$18.20$12.30 to $36.31

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $18 · 10th to 90th $9 to $76Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $5 to $31
$5$10$20$50$100facility $18professional $11

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$31.62
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$33.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$19.05
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$21.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$52.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.90
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$24.55
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$60.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$11.75
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$12.59

Where Missouri sits

The same service costs 4.7 times more in West Virginia than in Washington, DC. 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· 12th of 51

$15.85

WV $38.90DC $8.32

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.