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

Yeast identification from a fungal culture, each organism

CPT 87106the billing code this page is about

Laboratory work that identifies a specific yeast grown in culture; billed once for each yeast organism identified.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,982 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $28 and $118 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,982
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 2,982 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$33$60$100$165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $165).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 92 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 188 hospitals$22 – $30: 224 hospitals$22$30 – $40: 310 hospitals$40 – $54: 388 hospitals$40$54 – $73: 414 hospitals$73 – $98: 454 hospitals$73$98 – $133: 299 hospitals$133 – $179: 212 hospitals$133$179 – $242: 110 hospitals$179median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,691 of 2,982 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1692
$16$22188
$22$30224
$30$40310
$40$54388
$54$73414
$73$98454
$98$133299
$133$179212
$179$242110

By state

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

Alaska: median $96 across 14 hospitalsAK$96Maine: median $32 across 21 hospitalsME$32Vermont: median $56 across 10 hospitalsVT$56New Hampshire: median $59 across 22 hospitalsNH$59Washington: median $65 across 63 hospitalsWA$65Idaho: median $55 across 16 hospitalsID$55Montana: median $47 across 29 hospitalsMT$47North Dakota: median $62 across 32 hospitalsND$62Minnesota: median $62 across 91 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $74 across 126 hospitalsIL$74Wisconsin: median $76 across 98 hospitalsWI$76Michigan: median $55 across 91 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $37 across 95 hospitalsNY$37Massachusetts: median $69 across 51 hospitalsMA$69Oregon: median $63 across 46 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $50 across 15 hospitalsNV$50Wyoming: median $50 across 11 hospitalsWY$50South Dakota: median $98 across 33 hospitalsSD$98Iowa: median $48 across 69 hospitalsIA$48Indiana: median $60 across 91 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $59 across 132 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $57 across 119 hospitalsPA$57New Jersey: median $12 across 55 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: median $51 across 23 hospitalsCT$51Rhode Island: median $24 across 10 hospitalsRI$24California: median $92 across 149 hospitalsCA$92Utah: median $76 across 36 hospitalsUT$76Colorado: median $74 across 59 hospitalsCO$74Nebraska: median $96 across 67 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $51 across 70 hospitalsMO$51Kentucky: median $47 across 51 hospitalsKY$47West Virginia: median $49 across 32 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $59 across 69 hospitalsVA$59Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $64 across 38 hospitalsAZ$64New Mexico: median $83 across 15 hospitalsNM$83Kansas: median $61 across 72 hospitalsKS$61Arkansas: median $29 across 37 hospitalsAR$29Tennessee: median $30 across 75 hospitalsTN$30North Carolina: median $67 across 78 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $98 across 51 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $42 across 63 hospitalsOK$42Louisiana: median $28 across 49 hospitalsLA$28Mississippi: median $28 across 48 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $36 across 37 hospitalsAL$36Georgia: median $62 across 90 hospitalsGA$62Hawaii: median $85 across 19 hospitalsHI$85Texas: median $77 across 220 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $50 across 146 hospitalsFL$50
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
South Dakota SD33$98+63%$51 – $145
South Carolina SC51$98+63%$46 – $127
Alaska AK14$96+60%$45 – $141
Nebraska NE67$96+60%$43 – $141
California CA149$92+53%$29 – $199
Hawaii HI19$85+42%$47 – $146
New Mexico NM15$83+39%$38 – $160
Texas TX220$77+28%$44 – $180
Wisconsin WI98$76+27%$42 – $85
Utah UT36$76+27%$76 – $89
Illinois IL126$74+23%$43 – $124
Colorado CO59$74+23%$57 – $165
Massachusetts MA51$69+15%$35 – $108
North Carolina NC78$67+12%$23 – $125
Washington WA63$65+8%$44 – $114
Arizona AZ38$64+7%$21 – $242
Oregon OR46$63+5%$45 – $94
North Dakota ND32$62+4%$50 – $86
Minnesota MN91$62+3%$32 – $88
Georgia GA90$62+3%$24 – $112
Kansas KS72$61+1%$33 – $98
Indiana IN91$60−1%$23 – $96
New Hampshire NH22$59−1%$50 – $153
Ohio OH132$59−1%$36 – $103
Virginia VA69$59−2%$48 – $93
Pennsylvania PA119$57−5%$15 – $121
Vermont VT10$56−7%$35 – $143
Idaho ID16$55−8%$45 – $83
Michigan MI91$55−8%$34 – $78
Missouri MO70$51−14%$37 – $73
Connecticut CT23$51−15%$31 – $86
Florida FL146$50−16%$20 – $208
Nevada NV15$50−16%$17 – $84
Wyoming WY11$50−17%$39 – $85
West Virginia WV32$49−19%$33 – $74
Iowa IA69$48−21%$38 – $110
Montana MT29$47−22%$36 – $72
Kentucky KY51$47−22%$31 – $105
Oklahoma OK63$42−30%$23 – $88
New York NY95$37−38%$16 – $108
Alabama AL37$36−39%$24 – $115
Maine ME21$32−46%$20 – $58
Tennessee TN75$30−50%$20 – $57
Arkansas AR37$29−51%$14 – $68
Louisiana LA49$28−53%$19 – $50
Mississippi MS48$28−54%$20 – $57
Maryland MD41$27−54%$21 – $33
Rhode Island RI10$24−60%$19 – $93
New Jersey NJ55$12−80%$11 – $35
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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,173$56$25 – $123
Children’s60$87$37 – $127
Critical access739$68$35 – $109
Ownership
For-profit430$69$27 – $241
Government481$60$27 – $105
Non-profit2,061$58$28 – $110
System affiliation
Part of a system2,486$62$28 – $121
Independent496$54$26 – $100

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$100
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

2,047 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $31 and $118.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,047 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
$20$36$62$100$156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $156).

Of the 2,253 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,047 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,982 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 3,242 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,982
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here150
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 — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code3,242

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 Yeast Maldi.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Yeast identification from a fungal culture, each organism (CPT 87106) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87106-yeast-identification-from-a-fungal-culture-each-organism