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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Utah 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?

$10.96

Typical negotiated rate. In Utah, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.96 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $8.51 from a physician practice, and about $138 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$8.51$7.94 to $10.00
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$138$60.26 to $166

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $138 · 10th to 90th $19 to $219Professionalmedian $9 · 10th to 90th $7 to $11
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $138professional $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
$40.74
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$11.22
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$26.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.47
Median
$6.46
Typical High
$18.20
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$42.66
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$7.94
Typical High
$8.51
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$6.61
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.61
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.30
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$14.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.68
Median
$4.68
Typical High
$6.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.62
Typical High
$13.18

Where Utah 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.

Utah· 29th of 51

$10.96

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.