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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 October 2026.

How much does Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms cost?

$9.33

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.33 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.33 from a physician practice, and about $26.92 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$9.33$4.07 to $15.85
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.92$12.59 to $45.71

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $27 · 10th to 90th $8 to $63Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $3 to $24
$5$10$20$50$100facility $27professional $9

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$19.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$7.41
Typical High
$11.22
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$66.07
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$23.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$57.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$11.48
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$67.61
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$18.20
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$11.22
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$3.72
Median
$3.72
Typical High
$3.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.48
Median
$1.48
Typical High
$1.51

Where South Carolina sits

The same service costs 5.0 times more in Alaska than in Georgia. 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· 24th of 51

$9.33

AK $31.62GA $6.31

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.