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Herpes Simplex Type 2 Fluorescent Stain Test

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 87273

Detects herpes simplex virus type 2 directly in material swabbed or scraped from a sore, using an antibody tagged with fluorescent dye that lights up under a special microscope when the virus is there. Because the virus is looked for in the lesion itself, a positive result points to infection that is active at that site. Type 2 is the form most often responsible for genital herpes.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Herpes Simplex Type 2 Fluorescent Stain Test cost?

$12.02

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.02 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.77 from a physician practice, and about $26.92 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 5 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$9.77$8.51 to $11.22
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.92$16.60 to $69.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $27 · 10th to 90th $12 to $151Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $6 to $32
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $27professional $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
$15.49
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$31.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$54.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$33.88
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.79
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$13.49
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$23,988.33
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$12.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.62
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$24.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$7.24
Typical High
$16.60

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 2.6 times more in South Dakota 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.

New Jersey· 28th of 51

$12.02

SD $22.91DC $8.91

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.