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Rapid Stool Test For C. Difficile Toxin

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 87803

A rapid laboratory test on a stool sample that looks for a toxin produced by Clostridioides difficile, a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea, often after a course of antibiotics. The result is read visually and is available quickly.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Rapid Stool Test For C. Difficile Toxin cost?

$15.85

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $15.85 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $15.85 from a physician practice, and about $15.85 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$15.85$12.88 to $19.05
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$15.85$15.14 to $44.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $16 · 10th to 90th $15 to $76Professionalmedian $16 · 10th to 90th $8 to $30
$10$20$50$100facility $16professional $16

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
$15.14
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$15.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$19.05
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$67.61
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$15.85
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$147.91
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$30.90
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$117.49
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$30.20
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$75.86
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$33.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$19.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.76
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$37.15
4 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$7.59
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$3.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$7.59
Typical High
$9.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$3.02
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$3.80

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 3.5 times more in Alaska than in Alabama. 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.

Minnesota· 23rd of 51

$15.85

AK $36.31AL $10.47

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.