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

Fungus culture of skin, hair, or nail

CPT 87101the billing code this page is about

A skin, hair, or nail specimen is cultured to grow and isolate fungus, such as in a suspected fungal infection.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,776 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $26 and $122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,776
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,776 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
$14$30$60$107$176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $176).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 96 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 124 hospitals$18 – $25: 171 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 313 hospitals$35 – $50: 355 hospitals$35$50 – $71: 375 hospitals$71 – $100: 423 hospitals$71$100 – $142: 352 hospitals$142 – $200: 230 hospitals$142$200 – $283: 68 hospitals$200median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,507 of 2,776 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1396
$13$18124
$18$25171
$25$35313
$35$50355
$50$71375
$71$100423
$100$142352
$142$200230
$200$28368

By state

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

Alaska: median $148 across 19 hospitalsAK$148Maine: median $59 across 26 hospitalsME$59Vermont: median $84 across 13 hospitalsVT$84New Hampshire: median $86 across 20 hospitalsNH$86Washington: median $67 across 71 hospitalsWA$67Idaho: median $44 across 19 hospitalsID$44Montana: median $60 across 28 hospitalsMT$60North Dakota: median $59 across 26 hospitalsND$59Minnesota: median $56 across 86 hospitalsMN$56Illinois: median $93 across 114 hospitalsIL$93Wisconsin: median $77 across 97 hospitalsWI$77Michigan: median $45 across 88 hospitalsMI$45New York: median $31 across 100 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $52 across 44 hospitalsMA$52Oregon: median $53 across 45 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $65 across 15 hospitalsNV$65Wyoming: median $42 across 13 hospitalsWY$42South Dakota: median $118 across 25 hospitalsSD$118Iowa: median $52 across 60 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $69 across 86 hospitalsIN$69Ohio: median $76 across 127 hospitalsOH$76Pennsylvania: median $53 across 110 hospitalsPA$53New Jersey: median $9 across 49 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $34 across 19 hospitalsCT$34Rhode Island: median $62 across 10 hospitalsRI$62California: median $50 across 135 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $167 across 37 hospitalsUT$167Colorado: median $63 across 53 hospitalsCO$63Nebraska: median $108 across 64 hospitalsNE$108Missouri: median $55 across 63 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $72 across 62 hospitalsKY$72West Virginia: median $68 across 26 hospitalsWV$68Virginia: median $88 across 53 hospitalsVA$88Maryland: median $66 across 38 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 38 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: median $66 across 17 hospitalsNM$66Kansas: median $53 across 73 hospitalsKS$53Arkansas: median $20 across 26 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $26 across 70 hospitalsTN$26North Carolina: median $54 across 72 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $86 across 48 hospitalsSC$86Oklahoma: median $36 across 64 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $20 across 43 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $36 across 53 hospitalsMS$36Alabama: median $32 across 26 hospitalsAL$32Georgia: median $49 across 85 hospitalsGA$49Hawaii: median $62 across 15 hospitalsHI$62Texas: median $105 across 188 hospitalsTX$105Florida: median $72 across 114 hospitalsFL$72
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 UT37$167+178%$54 – $196
Alaska AK19$148+147%$44 – $262
South Dakota SD25$118+96%$67 – $162
Nebraska NE64$108+80%$42 – $165
Texas TX188$105+75%$33 – $186
Illinois IL114$93+54%$43 – $164
Virginia VA53$88+47%$43 – $185
New Hampshire NH20$86+44%$38 – $125
South Carolina SC48$86+43%$48 – $171
Vermont VT13$84+39%$32 – $121
Arizona AZ38$77+29%$22 – $237
Wisconsin WI97$77+28%$48 – $90
Ohio OH127$76+27%$34 – $142
Florida FL114$72+20%$18 – $346
Kentucky KY62$72+19%$25 – $132
Indiana IN86$69+16%$18 – $135
West Virginia WV26$68+13%$54 – $100
Washington WA71$67+12%$42 – $102
Maryland MD38$66+10%$50 – $81
New Mexico NM17$66+10%$40 – $140
Nevada NV15$65+8%$31 – $99
Colorado CO53$63+5%$43 – $111
Rhode Island RI10$62+3%$18 – $79
Hawaii HI15$62+3%$51 – $103
Montana MT28$600%$37 – $92
North Dakota ND26$59−2%$50 – $109
Maine ME26$59−2%$30 – $121
Minnesota MN86$56−6%$40 – $90
Missouri MO63$55−8%$27 – $88
North Carolina NC72$54−10%$36 – $107
Oregon OR45$53−11%$31 – $91
Kansas KS73$53−12%$28 – $84
Pennsylvania PA110$53−12%$10 – $92
Iowa IA60$52−13%$34 – $85
Massachusetts MA44$52−13%$26 – $111
California CA135$50−17%$22 – $81
Georgia GA85$49−18%$36 – $161
Michigan MI88$45−26%$10 – $58
Idaho ID19$44−26%$34 – $106
Wyoming WY13$42−30%$27 – $91
Oklahoma OK64$36−39%$26 – $90
Mississippi MS53$36−41%$18 – $70
Connecticut CT19$34−43%$24 – $64
Alabama AL26$32−46%$13 – $70
New York NY100$31−48%$14 – $108
Tennessee TN70$26−57%$12 – $84
Louisiana LA43$20−66%$13 – $64
Arkansas AR26$20−67%$8 – $89
New Jersey NJ49$9−85%$8 – $62
Delaware DE3not 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 care1,940$56$23 – $126
Children’s53$69$45 – $126
Critical access773$70$35 – $116
Ownership
For-profit367$75$23 – $233
Government482$60$30 – $113
Non-profit1,917$59$26 – $116
System affiliation
Part of a system2,279$62$26 – $125
Independent497$56$28 – $107

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$98
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

1,892 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $67; most fall between $29 and $123.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,892 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
$17$33$63$109$178

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $178).

Of the 2,075 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,892 gave a usable cash price; 106 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,776 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,008 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,776
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here144
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code3,008

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 July 20, 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 Culture-Fungal;Skin/Hair/Nail.

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, “Fungus culture of skin, hair, or nail (CPT 87101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87101-fungus-culture-of-skin-hair-or-nail