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Rapid Test for a Specific Infection-Causing Germ

Delaware rates for HCPCS 87449

This laboratory test uses an immunoassay method to detect a specific antigen, a marker protein, from an infection-causing organism in a patient sample. It offers a faster result than growing the organism in a culture and is used when a doctor needs to quickly confirm or rule out a particular infection.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Rapid Test for a Specific Infection-Causing Germ cost?

$12.59

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.59 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.00 from a physician practice, and about $95.50 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 4 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$10.00$10.00 to $16.60
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$95.50$12.59 to $355

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $95 · 10th to 90th $10 to $427Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $10 to $36
$10$20$50$100$200facility $95professional $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
$10.00
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$36.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$7.76
Typical High
$7.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.51
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$22.39
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$79.43
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.89
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$16.60

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 4.9 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.

Delaware· 34th of 51

$12.59

WV $43.65DC $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.