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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

New Mexico 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?

$8.71

Typical negotiated rate. In New Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8.71 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.51 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 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$8.51$7.76 to $10.96
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.18$13.80 to $61.66

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $28 · 10th to 90th $9 to $95Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $7 to $11
$10$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $28professional $9

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
$11.22
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$11.22
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$102.33
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$8.91
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$6.17
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$20.42
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$16.60
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$23.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.63
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$14.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$6.31

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 47th of 51

$8.71

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.