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

Fungus or yeast culture of blood

CPT 87103the billing code this page is about

A blood specimen is cultured to grow and isolate fungus or yeast.

Hospitals typically charge $84 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,469 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $88. Most fall between $36 and $168 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,469
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,469 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
$24$43$84$143$257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $257).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $23: 109 hospitals$17$23 – $32: 201 hospitals$32 – $44: 192 hospitals$32$44 – $61: 299 hospitals$61 – $84: 311 hospitals$61$84 – $116: 401 hospitals$116 – $160: 302 hospitals$116$160 – $221: 204 hospitals$221 – $305: 134 hospitals$221$305 – $421: 70 hospitals$305median $84price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,223 of 2,469 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$23109
$23$32201
$32$44192
$44$61299
$61$84311
$84$116401
$116$160302
$160$221204
$221$305134
$305$42170

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $84.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $68 across 23 hospitalsME$68Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $83 across 18 hospitalsNH$83Washington: median $81 across 50 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $46 across 17 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $116 across 15 hospitalsMT$116North Dakota: median $86 across 18 hospitalsND$86Minnesota: median $60 across 77 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $106 across 102 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $85 across 93 hospitalsWI$85Michigan: median $60 across 77 hospitalsMI$60New York: median $43 across 79 hospitalsNY$43Massachusetts: median $73 across 36 hospitalsMA$73Oregon: median $82 across 36 hospitalsOR$82Nevada: median $62 across 13 hospitalsNV$62Wyoming: median $58 across 10 hospitalsWY$58South Dakota: median $90 across 17 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $73 across 58 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $116 across 80 hospitalsIN$116Ohio: median $92 across 114 hospitalsOH$92Pennsylvania: median $77 across 110 hospitalsPA$77New Jersey: median $24 across 47 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: median $48 across 14 hospitalsCT$48Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $113 across 130 hospitalsCA$113Utah: median $216 across 37 hospitalsUT$216Colorado: median $101 across 47 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $117 across 50 hospitalsNE$117Missouri: median $79 across 59 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: median $94 across 37 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: median $89 across 29 hospitalsWV$89Virginia: median $90 across 65 hospitalsVA$90Maryland: median $82 across 39 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $91 across 34 hospitalsAZ$91New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $84 across 43 hospitalsKS$84Arkansas: median $39 across 25 hospitalsAR$39Tennessee: median $53 across 58 hospitalsTN$53North Carolina: median $62 across 58 hospitalsNC$62South Carolina: median $167 across 27 hospitalsSC$167Oklahoma: median $72 across 53 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: median $49 across 43 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $37 across 41 hospitalsMS$37Alabama: median $64 across 29 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $92 across 84 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $97 across 15 hospitalsHI$97Texas: median $136 across 191 hospitalsTX$136Florida: median $97 across 135 hospitalsFL$97
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $84. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$216+158%$122 – $254
South Carolina SC27$167+99%$72 – $287
Texas TX191$136+62%$48 – $350
Nebraska NE50$117+40%$66 – $180
Montana MT15$116+39%$64 – $152
Indiana IN80$116+38%$30 – $184
California CA130$113+35%$25 – $293
Illinois IL102$106+26%$53 – $207
Colorado CO47$101+21%$58 – $241
Florida FL135$97+16%$28 – $331
Hawaii HI15$97+16%$59 – $110
Kentucky KY37$94+12%$55 – $114
Georgia GA84$92+10%$30 – $156
Ohio OH114$92+9%$48 – $164
Arizona AZ34$91+9%$26 – $287
South Dakota SD17$90+8%$57 – $128
Virginia VA65$90+7%$34 – $175
West Virginia WV29$89+6%$58 – $120
North Dakota ND18$86+3%$55 – $126
Wisconsin WI93$85+2%$50 – $114
Kansas KS43$840%$42 – $152
New Hampshire NH18$83−1%$33 – $226
Oregon OR36$82−2%$62 – $173
Maryland MD39$82−3%$60 – $98
Washington WA50$81−3%$54 – $133
Missouri MO59$79−6%$51 – $137
Pennsylvania PA110$77−9%$24 – $144
Iowa IA58$73−12%$39 – $113
Massachusetts MA36$73−13%$46 – $137
Oklahoma OK53$72−14%$31 – $121
Maine ME23$68−19%$36 – $132
Alabama AL29$64−24%$21 – $238
North Carolina NC58$62−26%$31 – $219
Nevada NV13$62−26%$20 – $101
Michigan MI77$60−28%$28 – $82
Minnesota MN77$60−28%$46 – $117
Wyoming WY10$58−31%$43 – $113
Tennessee TN58$53−37%$16 – $114
Louisiana LA43$49−41%$20 – $106
Connecticut CT14$48−42%$34 – $91
Idaho ID17$46−45%$38 – $73
New York NY79$43−49%$20 – $87
Arkansas AR25$39−53%$14 – $80
Mississippi MS41$37−56%$25 – $86
New Jersey NJ47$24−72%$20 – $103
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not 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 $84.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,893$82$32 – $175
Children’s63$92$62 – $177
Critical access503$86$44 – $139
Ownership
For-profit365$126$40 – $467
Government319$79$34 – $146
Non-profit1,775$81$35 – $149
System affiliation
Part of a system2,127$85$34 – $170
Independent342$77$40 – $138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$132
Median cash price$84
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,756 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $85 and the average of the middle 60% is $89; most fall between $39 and $164.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,756 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
$27$46$85$140$247

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $247).

Of the 1,943 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,756 gave a usable cash price; 105 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,469 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,696 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,469
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here137
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 — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,696

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 Culture-Fungal; Blood.

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 or yeast culture of blood (CPT 87103) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87103-fungus-or-yeast-culture-of-blood