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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Rhode Island 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?

$10.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.12 from a physician practice, and about $26.30 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 4 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$9.12$7.08 to $9.12
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.30$14.45 to $46.77

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $26 · 10th to 90th $11 to $56Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $5 to $16
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $26professional $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
$14.45
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$56.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$9.12
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$17.78
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$7.08
Typical High
$14.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$14.45
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$18.62
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$17.38

Where Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island· 31st of 51

$10.72

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.