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

Identifying a cultured organism with an amplified DNA probe

CPT 87150the billing code this page is about

Typing of an organism already grown in culture using an amplified genetic probe; billed once per culture or isolate for each organism probed.

Hospitals typically charge $89 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,305 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $98. Most fall between $39 and $196 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,305
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 2,305 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
$30$47$89$168$308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $308).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $32: 143 hospitals$24$32 – $43: 265 hospitals$43 – $57: 220 hospitals$43$57 – $77: 275 hospitals$77 – $103: 279 hospitals$77$103 – $138: 239 hospitals$138 – $186: 282 hospitals$138$186 – $249: 172 hospitals$249 – $335: 113 hospitals$249$335 – $449: 89 hospitals$335median $89price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,077 of 2,305 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$32143
$32$43265
$43$57220
$57$77275
$77$103279
$103$138239
$138$186282
$186$249172
$249$335113
$335$44989

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $89.

Alaska: median $76 across 14 hospitalsAK$76Maine: median $64 across 16 hospitalsME$64Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $115 across 17 hospitalsNH$115Washington: median $71 across 50 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $156 across 17 hospitalsID$156Montana: median $254 across 10 hospitalsMT$254North Dakota: median $215 across 27 hospitalsND$215Minnesota: median $59 across 81 hospitalsMN$59Illinois: median $111 across 99 hospitalsIL$111Wisconsin: median $143 across 81 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $69 across 47 hospitalsMI$69New York: median $86 across 87 hospitalsNY$86Massachusetts: median $108 across 37 hospitalsMA$108Oregon: median $107 across 32 hospitalsOR$107Nevada: median $91 across 11 hospitalsNV$91Wyoming: median $92 across 13 hospitalsWY$92South Dakota: median $141 across 11 hospitalsSD$141Iowa: median $98 across 61 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $63 across 75 hospitalsIN$63Ohio: median $91 across 110 hospitalsOH$91Pennsylvania: median $94 across 105 hospitalsPA$94New Jersey: median $39 across 48 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: median $78 across 12 hospitalsCT$78Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $135 across 120 hospitalsCA$135Utah: median $380 across 37 hospitalsUT$380Colorado: median $171 across 50 hospitalsCO$171Nebraska: median $95 across 56 hospitalsNE$95Missouri: median $74 across 63 hospitalsMO$74Kentucky: median $81 across 41 hospitalsKY$81West Virginia: median $104 across 33 hospitalsWV$104Virginia: median $105 across 61 hospitalsVA$105Maryland: median $66 across 27 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $65 across 17 hospitalsAZ$65New Mexico: median $108 across 14 hospitalsNM$108Kansas: median $87 across 49 hospitalsKS$87Arkansas: median $36 across 17 hospitalsAR$36Tennessee: median $60 across 62 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $63 across 72 hospitalsNC$63South Carolina: median $142 across 43 hospitalsSC$142Oklahoma: median $41 across 39 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $44 across 35 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $45 across 40 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $54 across 22 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $37 across 70 hospitalsGA$37Hawaii: median $156 across 15 hospitalsHI$156Texas: median $154 across 138 hospitalsTX$154Florida: median $78 across 104 hospitalsFL$78
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $89. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$380+328%$94 – $447
Montana MT10$254+187%$76 – $730
North Dakota ND27$215+143%$158 – $248
Colorado CO50$171+92%$70 – $353
Hawaii HI15$156+76%$111 – $237
Idaho ID17$156+76%$123 – $270
Texas TX138$154+74%$52 – $437
Wisconsin WI81$143+61%$85 – $187
South Carolina SC43$142+60%$64 – $197
South Dakota SD11$141+59%$34 – $183
California CA120$135+53%$55 – $308
New Hampshire NH17$115+29%$42 – $166
Illinois IL99$111+25%$54 – $226
Massachusetts MA37$108+22%$55 – $185
New Mexico NM14$108+22%$58 – $302
Oregon OR32$107+21%$59 – $148
Virginia VA61$105+19%$87 – $209
West Virginia WV33$104+18%$59 – $202
Iowa IA61$98+10%$49 – $157
Nebraska NE56$95+7%$44 – $227
Pennsylvania PA105$94+6%$39 – $357
Wyoming WY13$92+4%$72 – $103
Nevada NV11$91+3%$39 – $160
Ohio OH110$91+2%$43 – $157
Kansas KS49$87−2%$40 – $181
New York NY87$86−3%$36 – $150
Kentucky KY41$81−8%$58 – $214
Connecticut CT12$78−12%$44 – $107
Florida FL104$78−12%$35 – $230
Alaska AK14$76−15%$54 – $126
Missouri MO63$74−16%$30 – $111
Washington WA50$71−20%$43 – $209
Michigan MI47$69−22%$48 – $86
Maryland MD27$66−25%$52 – $78
Arizona AZ17$65−27%$40 – $120
Maine ME16$64−28%$32 – $88
North Carolina NC72$63−29%$43 – $134
Indiana IN75$63−29%$38 – $92
Tennessee TN62$60−32%$33 – $108
Minnesota MN81$59−34%$37 – $168
Alabama AL22$54−39%$28 – $135
Mississippi MS40$45−49%$25 – $89
Louisiana LA35$44−50%$18 – $86
Oklahoma OK39$41−54%$26 – $63
New Jersey NJ48$39−56%$35 – $47
Georgia GA70$37−59%$25 – $106
Arkansas AR17$36−60%$31 – $42
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not 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 $89.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,732$85$39 – $189
Children’s40$89$53 – $222
Critical access525$100$48 – $200
Ownership
For-profit275$105$40 – $270
Government372$78$36 – $160
Non-profit1,650$89$40 – $189
System affiliation
Part of a system1,959$90$39 – $202
Independent346$84$44 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$154
Median cash price$89
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,580 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $95 and the average of the middle 60% is $105; most fall between $43 and $202.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,580 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
$32$50$95$174$295

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $295).

Of the 1,738 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,580 gave a usable cash price; 79 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,305 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,494 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,305
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here107
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 — excluded81
Hospitals that filed this code2,494

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 Hist/Blasto Pcr ID.

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, “Identifying a cultured organism with an amplified DNA probe (CPT 87150) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87150-identifying-a-cultured-organism-with-an-amplified-dna-probe