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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

New Hampshire 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?

$17.38

Typical negotiated rate. In New Hampshire, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.38 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.00 from a physician practice, and about $30.90 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$10.00$6.17 to $17.38
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$30.90$16.22 to $72.44

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $31 · 10th to 90th $11 to $89Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $35
$5$10$20$50$100facility $31professional $10

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
$10.72
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$42.66
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$54.95
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$18.20
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$66.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.90
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$27.54
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$16.60
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
$3.98
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$27.54

Where New Hampshire 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.

New Hampshire· 6th of 51

$17.38

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.