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

Culture for mycoplasma or ureaplasma

CPT 87109the billing code this page is about

A culture of a specimen in any growth medium to look for mycoplasma-type bacteria, such as Mycoplasma hominis or Ureaplasma.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,101 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $81. Most fall between $32 and $162 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,101
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,101 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
$19$39$76$138$225

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $225).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $21: 151 hospitals$15$21 – $29: 122 hospitals$29 – $40: 178 hospitals$29$40 – $54: 270 hospitals$54 – $74: 222 hospitals$54$74 – $102: 256 hospitals$102 – $139: 291 hospitals$102$139 – $191: 211 hospitals$191 – $261: 141 hospitals$191$261 – $358: 61 hospitals$261median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,903 of 2,101 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$21151
$21$29122
$29$40178
$40$54270
$54$74222
$74$102256
$102$139291
$139$191211
$191$261141
$261$35861

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: median $89 across 14 hospitalsAK$89Maine: median $48 across 13 hospitalsME$48Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $76 across 13 hospitalsNH$76Washington: median $69 across 53 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: median $60 across 13 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $102 across 11 hospitalsMT$102North Dakota: median $57 across 15 hospitalsND$57Minnesota: median $111 across 14 hospitalsMN$111Illinois: median $97 across 81 hospitalsIL$97Wisconsin: median $87 across 68 hospitalsWI$87Michigan: median $48 across 71 hospitalsMI$48New York: median $51 across 89 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $97 across 44 hospitalsMA$97Oregon: median $62 across 38 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: median $47 across 14 hospitalsNV$47Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $46 across 36 hospitalsIA$46Indiana: median $95 across 70 hospitalsIN$95Ohio: median $70 across 110 hospitalsOH$70Pennsylvania: median $78 across 109 hospitalsPA$78New Jersey: median $18 across 54 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: median $67 across 15 hospitalsCT$67Rhode Island: median $67 across 10 hospitalsRI$67California: median $42 across 106 hospitalsCA$42Utah: median $163 across 36 hospitalsUT$163Colorado: median $93 across 46 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $85 across 26 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $107 across 46 hospitalsMO$107Kentucky: median $50 across 45 hospitalsKY$50West Virginia: median $64 across 11 hospitalsWV$64Virginia: median $90 across 63 hospitalsVA$90Maryland: median $75 across 24 hospitalsMD$75Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 28 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $92 across 17 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $114 across 29 hospitalsKS$114Arkansas: median $51 across 22 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $76 across 46 hospitalsTN$76North Carolina: median $78 across 58 hospitalsNC$78South Carolina: median $140 across 37 hospitalsSC$140Oklahoma: median $109 across 43 hospitalsOK$109Louisiana: median $33 across 31 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $52 across 29 hospitalsMS$52Alabama: median $32 across 23 hospitalsAL$32Georgia: median $87 across 67 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: median $149 across 10 hospitalsHI$149Texas: median $121 across 165 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $50 across 117 hospitalsFL$50
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT36$163+116%$69 – $192
Hawaii HI10$149+97%$73 – $205
South Carolina SC37$140+85%$81 – $208
Texas TX165$121+61%$44 – $236
Kansas KS29$114+50%$81 – $412
Minnesota MN14$111+47%$29 – $164
Oklahoma OK43$109+44%$81 – $167
Missouri MO46$107+41%$57 – $156
Montana MT11$102+35%$52 – $124
Illinois IL81$97+28%$37 – $165
Massachusetts MA44$97+28%$52 – $220
Indiana IN70$95+25%$32 – $199
Colorado CO46$93+22%$53 – $186
New Mexico NM17$92+21%$49 – $123
Virginia VA63$90+18%$26 – $173
Arizona AZ28$89+18%$23 – $162
Alaska AK14$89+18%$46 – $216
Georgia GA67$87+16%$31 – $146
Wisconsin WI68$87+15%$65 – $137
Nebraska NE26$85+13%$43 – $176
North Carolina NC58$78+3%$18 – $119
Pennsylvania PA109$78+3%$23 – $235
New Hampshire NH13$76+1%$64 – $543
Tennessee TN46$760%$26 – $151
Maryland MD24$75−1%$50 – $101
Ohio OH110$70−8%$46 – $146
Washington WA53$69−9%$38 – $146
Connecticut CT15$67−11%$41 – $93
Rhode Island RI10$67−12%$36 – $123
West Virginia WV11$64−15%$41 – $96
Oregon OR38$62−18%$38 – $98
Idaho ID13$60−21%$60 – $163
North Dakota ND15$57−25%$26 – $83
Mississippi MS29$52−31%$36 – $102
Arkansas AR22$51−32%$34 – $95
New York NY89$51−33%$19 – $103
Kentucky KY45$50−34%$36 – $195
Florida FL117$50−34%$17 – $123
Michigan MI71$48−37%$14 – $91
Maine ME13$48−37%$31 – $95
Nevada NV14$47−38%$15 – $161
Iowa IA36$46−39%$39 – $118
California CA106$42−44%$20 – $101
Louisiana LA31$33−56%$24 – $68
Alabama AL23$32−57%$25 – $180
New Jersey NJ54$18−77%$15 – $50
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,662$70$31 – $162
Children’s43$105$46 – $201
Critical access387$87$41 – $161
Ownership
For-profit317$101$35 – $344
Government292$67$27 – $138
Non-profit1,483$72$33 – $149
System affiliation
Part of a system1,787$75$32 – $163
Independent314$76$33 – $146

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$130
Median cash price$76
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

1,474 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $78 and the average of the middle 60% is $83; most fall between $36 and $154.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,474 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$41$78$135$198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $198).

Of the 1,641 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,474 gave a usable cash price; 96 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,101 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,308 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,101
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here124
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 — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code2,308

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 MYCOPLASMA.

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, “Culture for mycoplasma or ureaplasma (CPT 87109) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87109-culture-for-mycoplasma-or-ureaplasma