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Quantitative Culture For Oxygen-Free Bacteria

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 87073

A laboratory culture that grows bacteria able to live without oxygen from a sample such as tissue or fluid, counts how many are present, and gives a preliminary identification. Counting the organisms helps separate a genuine infection from harmless contamination.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Quantitative Culture For Oxygen-Free Bacteria cost?

$10.47

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.47 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.55 from a physician practice, and about $22.91 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 9 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$9.55$9.12 to $14.79
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$22.91$13.18 to $28.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $23 · 10th to 90th $9 to $41Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $9 to $29
$5$20$100$500$2Kfacility $23professional $10

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
$8.91
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$40.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$42.66
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$70.79
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$23.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$33.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$12.02
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.31
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$24.55
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$25.12
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.92
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$7,079.46
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$16.60
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$28.84
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.17
Typical High
$14.45
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$70.79
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$23.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$13.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$23.99

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 2.3 times more in Vermont than in Maryland. 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.

Massachusetts· 24th of 51

$10.47

VT $16.60MD $7.24

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.