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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Nebraska 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?

$29.51

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $29.51 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $16.22 from a physician practice, and about $40.74 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$16.22$6.17 to $30.90
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$40.74$25.12 to $77.62

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $41 · 10th to 90th $11 to $87Professionalmedian $16 · 10th to 90th $6 to $62
$5$10$20$50$100facility $41professional $16

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
$19.05
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$61.66
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$23.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$72.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.23
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$15.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$22.39
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$97.72
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.27
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$17.38
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$19.50
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$11.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$19.05

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 2nd of 51

$29.51

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.