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

Fungus culture from another body site

CPT 87102the billing code this page is about

A specimen from a site other than skin, hair, nail, or blood is cultured to grow and isolate fungus.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,115 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $31 and $161 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,115
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 3,115 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$37$74$136$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $221).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 102 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 131 hospitals$21 – $30: 204 hospitals$21$30 – $43: 333 hospitals$43 – $61: 347 hospitals$43$61 – $86: 506 hospitals$86 – $122: 420 hospitals$86$122 – $173: 392 hospitals$173 – $246: 268 hospitals$173$246 – $349: 102 hospitals$246median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,805 of 3,115 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15102
$15$21131
$21$30204
$30$43333
$43$61347
$61$86506
$86$122420
$122$173392
$173$246268
$246$349102

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: median $191 across 16 hospitalsAK$191Maine: median $65 across 27 hospitalsME$65Vermont: median $75 across 14 hospitalsVT$75New Hampshire: median $89 across 20 hospitalsNH$89Washington: median $72 across 70 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $42 across 22 hospitalsID$42Montana: median $64 across 28 hospitalsMT$64North Dakota: median $50 across 31 hospitalsND$50Minnesota: median $66 across 104 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $94 across 128 hospitalsIL$94Wisconsin: median $80 across 107 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $51 across 91 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $30 across 116 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $68 across 51 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $75 across 47 hospitalsOR$75Nevada: median $69 across 18 hospitalsNV$69Wyoming: median $85 across 15 hospitalsWY$85South Dakota: median $111 across 31 hospitalsSD$111Iowa: median $60 across 80 hospitalsIA$60Indiana: median $43 across 87 hospitalsIN$43Ohio: median $73 across 136 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $54 across 122 hospitalsPA$54New Jersey: median $10 across 52 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $51 across 23 hospitalsCT$51Rhode Island: median $67 across 10 hospitalsRI$67California: median $164 across 149 hospitalsCA$164Utah: median $235 across 40 hospitalsUT$235Colorado: median $90 across 66 hospitalsCO$90Nebraska: median $158 across 73 hospitalsNE$158Missouri: median $63 across 72 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $89 across 51 hospitalsKY$89West Virginia: median $55 across 36 hospitalsWV$55Virginia: median $93 across 72 hospitalsVA$93Maryland: median $66 across 40 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $45 across 37 hospitalsAZ$45New Mexico: median $95 across 24 hospitalsNM$95Kansas: median $66 across 74 hospitalsKS$66Arkansas: median $19 across 37 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $45 across 76 hospitalsTN$45North Carolina: median $55 across 76 hospitalsNC$55South Carolina: median $181 across 48 hospitalsSC$181Oklahoma: median $59 across 63 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $45 across 51 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $64 across 49 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $64 across 40 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $119 across 97 hospitalsGA$119Hawaii: median $65 across 18 hospitalsHI$65Texas: median $163 across 224 hospitalsTX$163Florida: median $74 across 149 hospitalsFL$74
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT40$235+217%$104 – $277
Alaska AK16$191+158%$123 – $237
South Carolina SC48$181+145%$77 – $200
California CA149$164+121%$30 – $175
Texas TX224$163+120%$57 – $249
Nebraska NE73$158+114%$74 – $219
Georgia GA97$119+60%$32 – $159
South Dakota SD31$111+49%$83 – $155
New Mexico NM24$95+28%$37 – $156
Illinois IL128$94+27%$41 – $192
Virginia VA72$93+25%$52 – $188
Colorado CO66$90+21%$52 – $184
Kentucky KY51$89+20%$46 – $231
New Hampshire NH20$89+20%$64 – $216
Wyoming WY15$85+15%$49 – $109
Wisconsin WI107$80+8%$48 – $97
Vermont VT14$75+2%$28 – $134
Oregon OR47$75+1%$43 – $145
Florida FL149$740%$25 – $339
Ohio OH136$73−1%$38 – $126
Washington WA70$72−3%$43 – $123
Nevada NV18$69−7%$27 – $134
Massachusetts MA51$68−8%$35 – $116
Rhode Island RI10$67−10%$20 – $88
Maryland MD40$66−11%$52 – $80
Kansas KS74$66−11%$41 – $117
Minnesota MN104$66−11%$31 – $93
Hawaii HI18$65−12%$59 – $77
Maine ME27$65−12%$28 – $124
Montana MT28$64−13%$37 – $94
Mississippi MS49$64−14%$31 – $105
Alabama AL40$64−14%$15 – $277
Missouri MO72$63−14%$36 – $128
Iowa IA80$60−19%$38 – $108
Oklahoma OK63$59−20%$32 – $120
West Virginia WV36$55−26%$37 – $94
North Carolina NC76$55−26%$44 – $113
Pennsylvania PA122$54−27%$13 – $131
Michigan MI91$51−31%$15 – $66
Connecticut CT23$51−32%$31 – $70
North Dakota ND31$50−33%$16 – $72
Tennessee TN76$45−39%$26 – $137
Louisiana LA51$45−39%$20 – $97
Arizona AZ37$45−39%$25 – $183
Indiana IN87$43−42%$20 – $99
Idaho ID22$42−43%$34 – $92
New York NY116$30−59%$14 – $112
Arkansas AR37$19−74%$8 – $92
New Jersey NJ52$10−87%$9 – $58
Delaware DE7not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,232$74$29 – $170
Children’s63$80$49 – $194
Critical access810$74$37 – $120
Ownership
For-profit450$107$36 – $349
Government520$72$33 – $142
Non-profit2,135$72$30 – $146
System affiliation
Part of a system2,569$75$31 – $164
Independent546$71$33 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$123
Median cash price$74
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

2,124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $78 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $34 and $163.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,124 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
$22$40$78$142$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $210).

Of the 2,343 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,124 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,115 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,395 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,115
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,395

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; Other.

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 from another body site (CPT 87102) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87102-fungus-culture-from-another-body-site