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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

North Dakota 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?

$14.13

Typical negotiated rate. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $14.13 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $12.30 from a physician practice, and about $58.88 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 5 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$12.30$8.51 to $21.38
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$58.88$8.91 to $58.88

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $59 · 10th to 90th $7 to $59Professionalmedian $12 · 10th to 90th $7 to $62
$10$20$50$100facility $59professional $12

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
$6.61
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$58.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$61.66
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$21.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$13.49
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$75.86
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$33.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$29.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$15.49

Where North Dakota 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.

North Dakota· 15th of 51

$14.13

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.