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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Full identification of an oxygen-avoiding bacterium

CPT 87076the billing code this page is about

Extra laboratory testing to name precisely a bacterium that grows without oxygen after it has been isolated from a culture; the charge applies to each organism identified.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,960 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $27 and $116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,960
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,960 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$15$33$60$102$165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $165).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 85 hospitals$10$13 – $19: 142 hospitals$19 – $26: 187 hospitals$19$26 – $36: 285 hospitals$36 – $50: 433 hospitals$36$50 – $70: 382 hospitals$70 – $97: 472 hospitals$70$97 – $134: 360 hospitals$134 – $187: 226 hospitals$134$187 – $260: 94 hospitals$187median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,666 of 2,960 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1385
$13$19142
$19$26187
$26$36285
$36$50433
$50$70382
$70$97472
$97$134360
$134$187226
$187$26094

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: median $104 across 15 hospitalsAK$104Maine: median $21 across 24 hospitalsME$21Vermont: median $94 across 11 hospitalsVT$94New Hampshire: median $48 across 20 hospitalsNH$48Washington: median $66 across 59 hospitalsWA$66Idaho: median $56 across 13 hospitalsID$56Montana: median $78 across 25 hospitalsMT$78North Dakota: median $50 across 28 hospitalsND$50Minnesota: median $62 across 104 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $73 across 128 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: median $63 across 105 hospitalsWI$63Michigan: median $59 across 84 hospitalsMI$59New York: median $36 across 99 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $56 across 50 hospitalsMA$56Oregon: median $47 across 44 hospitalsOR$47Nevada: median $68 across 17 hospitalsNV$68Wyoming: median $74 across 15 hospitalsWY$74South Dakota: median $83 across 34 hospitalsSD$83Iowa: median $50 across 69 hospitalsIA$50Indiana: median $66 across 89 hospitalsIN$66Ohio: median $57 across 117 hospitalsOH$57Pennsylvania: median $49 across 121 hospitalsPA$49New Jersey: median $9 across 53 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $43 across 21 hospitalsCT$43Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $100 across 149 hospitalsCA$100Utah: median $133 across 38 hospitalsUT$133Colorado: median $90 across 61 hospitalsCO$90Nebraska: median $87 across 63 hospitalsNE$87Missouri: median $48 across 70 hospitalsMO$48Kentucky: median $72 across 47 hospitalsKY$72West Virginia: median $36 across 33 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $72 across 70 hospitalsVA$72Maryland: median $27 across 40 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $24 across 36 hospitalsAZ$24New Mexico: median $100 across 16 hospitalsNM$100Kansas: median $50 across 72 hospitalsKS$50Arkansas: median $34 across 37 hospitalsAR$34Tennessee: median $37 across 73 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $57 across 79 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: median $93 across 51 hospitalsSC$93Oklahoma: median $50 across 69 hospitalsOK$50Louisiana: median $26 across 48 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $28 across 51 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $61 across 37 hospitalsAL$61Georgia: median $54 across 94 hospitalsGA$54Hawaii: median $48 across 19 hospitalsHI$48Texas: median $109 across 219 hospitalsTX$109Florida: median $92 across 129 hospitalsFL$92
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT38$133+122%$133 – $157
Texas TX219$109+80%$39 – $190
Alaska AK15$104+73%$82 – $176
California CA149$100+67%$29 – $178
New Mexico NM16$100+66%$38 – $117
Vermont VT11$94+56%$60 – $166
South Carolina SC51$93+54%$60 – $113
Florida FL129$92+53%$28 – $331
Colorado CO61$90+50%$56 – $115
Nebraska NE63$87+45%$30 – $145
South Dakota SD34$83+39%$42 – $157
Montana MT25$78+29%$42 – $103
Wyoming WY15$74+23%$16 – $108
Illinois IL128$73+21%$39 – $127
Kentucky KY47$72+19%$24 – $100
Virginia VA70$72+19%$42 – $132
Nevada NV17$68+12%$42 – $97
Indiana IN89$66+10%$23 – $100
Washington WA59$66+9%$38 – $116
Wisconsin WI105$63+4%$41 – $77
Minnesota MN104$62+3%$40 – $85
Alabama AL37$61+2%$24 – $264
Michigan MI84$59−3%$34 – $79
North Carolina NC79$57−5%$16 – $126
Ohio OH117$57−5%$36 – $89
Massachusetts MA50$56−7%$29 – $101
Idaho ID13$56−8%$26 – $138
Georgia GA94$54−10%$29 – $106
Iowa IA69$50−16%$30 – $84
Oklahoma OK69$50−16%$26 – $96
North Dakota ND28$50−16%$38 – $67
Kansas KS72$50−17%$36 – $82
Pennsylvania PA121$49−18%$15 – $109
New Hampshire NH20$48−20%$25 – $122
Hawaii HI19$48−20%$24 – $84
Missouri MO70$48−21%$35 – $85
Oregon OR44$47−22%$32 – $66
Connecticut CT21$43−28%$28 – $67
Tennessee TN73$37−39%$24 – $75
New York NY99$36−40%$15 – $84
West Virginia WV33$36−41%$7 – $79
Arkansas AR37$34−43%$27 – $86
Mississippi MS51$28−53%$16 – $51
Maryland MD40$27−55%$21 – $33
Louisiana LA48$26−56%$13 – $65
Arizona AZ36$24−60%$11 – $55
Maine ME24$21−65%$13 – $62
New Jersey NJ53$9−85%$8 – $44
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,144$57$25 – $120
Children’s60$70$42 – $117
Critical access746$65$32 – $106
Ownership
For-profit425$79$28 – $247
Government497$60$26 – $106
Non-profit2,028$57$27 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system2,456$60$27 – $118
Independent504$60$27 – $111

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$99
Median cash price$60
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

2,043 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $61 and the average of the middle 60% is $64; most fall between $29 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,043 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$18$36$61$102$155

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $155).

Of the 2,252 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,043 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,960 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,219 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,960
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here155
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code3,219

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Anaerobe ID, Anaid.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Full identification of an oxygen-avoiding bacterium (CPT 87076) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87076-full-identification-of-an-oxygen-avoiding-bacterium