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

Identifying a cultured organism by pulse-field gel typing

CPT 87152the billing code this page is about

Typing of an organism already grown in culture by separating its DNA fragments with pulse-field gel electrophoresis.

Hospitals typically charge $39 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 236 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $51. Most fall between $9 and $156 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
236
States
34
Filings dated
Nov 2025 – 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 236 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
$8$9$39$120$341

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 44× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $341).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $11: 53 hospitals$7$11 – $17: 25 hospitals$17 – $27: 10 hospitals$17$27 – $41: 21 hospitals$41 – $65: 32 hospitals$41$65 – $101: 9 hospitals$101 – $158: 28 hospitals$101$158 – $246: 19 hospitals$246 – $384: 8 hospitals$246$384 – $599: 9 hospitals$384median $39price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (214 of 236 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$1153
$11$1725
$17$2710
$27$4121
$41$6532
$65$1019
$101$15828
$158$24619
$246$3848
$384$5999

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $39.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $120 across 35 hospitalsIL$120Wisconsin: median $120 across 24 hospitalsWI$120Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $8 across 12 hospitalsNY$8Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $39 across 13 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $6 across 13 hospitalsPA$6New Jersey: median $9 across 22 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $54 across 21 hospitalsCA$54Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $14 across 12 hospitalsOK$14Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $48 across 10 hospitalsFL$48
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $39. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL35$120+210%$13 – $377
Wisconsin WI24$120+210%$120 – $162
California CA21$54+39%$54 – $54
Florida FL10$48+24%$48 – $48
Iowa IA13$390%$39 – $39
Oklahoma OK12$14−64%$14 – $14
New Jersey NJ22$9−78%$8 – $9
New York NY12$8−80%$8 – $8
Pennsylvania PA13$6−85%$5 – $9
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $39.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care213$39$9 – $129
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access20$63$34 – $232
Ownership
For-profit23$39$12 – $698
Government22$14$8 – $155
Non-profit191$48$9 – $129
System affiliation
Part of a system215$48$9 – $159
Independent21$13$9 – $23

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$113
Median cash price$39
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

136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $54 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $16 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 136 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
$14$34$54$120$200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $200).

Of the 159 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 136 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

236 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 255 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted236
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code255

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 CULTURE TYPE PULSE FIELD GEL.

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 by pulse-field gel typing (CPT 87152) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87152-identifying-a-cultured-organism-by-pulse-field-gel-typing