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Rapid Stool Test For C. Difficile Toxin

Virginia 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?

$12.30

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.30 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $10.96 from a physician practice, and about $21.38 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$10.96$7.24 to $12.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$21.38$15.85 to $38.02

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $21 · 10th to 90th $14 to $76Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $6 to $19
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $21professional $11

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
$12.02
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$37.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$14.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$77.62
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$12.30
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$15.49
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$47.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$20.89
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$23.44
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$23.44
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.94
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$24.55
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$10.72
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$10,232.93
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$10,232.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$19.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6.46
Median
$8.51
Typical High
$15.85
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
$6.03
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$7.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.40
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$2.82

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 42nd of 51

$12.30

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.