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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

South Carolina 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 South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $14.13 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.13 from a physician practice, and about $37.15 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 6 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$8.13$7.41 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$37.15$13.18 to $66.07

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $37 · 10th to 90th $7 to $170Professionalmedian $8 · 10th to 90th $7 to $40
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $37professional $8

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
$7.41
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$223.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$47.86
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$61.66
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$15.85
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$75.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.37
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$12.02
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$19.50
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$13.18

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 14th 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.