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Stool Culture, Additional Intestinal Organisms

Virginia 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?

$7.24

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7.24 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.46 from a physician practice, and about $10.96 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$6.46$4.68 to $7.59
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$10.96$9.33 to $22.91

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $11 · 10th to 90th $7 to $43Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $5 to $12
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $11professional $6

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
$7.08
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$23.99
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.08
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$12.02
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$46.77
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4.57
Median
$5.37
Typical High
$6.92
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$13.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.13
Median
$6.92
Typical High
$10.72
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$14.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.95
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$18.62
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$8.91
Typical High
$19.05
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.75
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$2.75
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$10,232.93
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.03
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$10,232.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.88
Median
$5.50
Typical High
$7.94
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
$3.55
Median
$4.37
Typical High
$4.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.41
Median
$1.74
Typical High
$1.78

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 49th of 51

$7.24

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.