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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Montana 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?

$12.59

Typical negotiated rate. In Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.59 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.96 from a physician practice, and about $28.18 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 6 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$8.51 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.18$12.59 to $93.33

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $28 · 10th to 90th $12 to $933Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $36
$10$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $28professional $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
$33.88
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$933.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$61.66
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$81,283.05
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$12.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$53.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$13.80
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$28.84
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$28.84
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$53.70
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$13.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$13.18

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 20th of 51

$12.59

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.