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

Giardia parasite antigen test by fluorescent staining

CPT 87269the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that uses fluorescent-labeled antibody staining to detect Giardia antigen directly in a stool or other specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 507 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $21 and $102 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
507
States
44
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 507 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$29$52$80$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $191).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 67 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 28 hospitals$25 – $34: 43 hospitals$25$34 – $47: 63 hospitals$47 – $64: 76 hospitals$47$64 – $89: 102 hospitals$89 – $122: 36 hospitals$89$122 – $169: 21 hospitals$169 – $232: 12 hospitals$169$232 – $320: 21 hospitals$232median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (469 of 507 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1867
$18$2528
$25$3443
$34$4763
$47$6476
$64$89102
$89$12236
$122$16921
$169$23212
$232$32021

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: median $51 across 11 hospitalsVT$51New Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $63 across 11 hospitalsMT$63North Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $67 across 25 hospitalsIL$67Wisconsin: median $36 across 10 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: median $19 across 16 hospitalsMI$19New York: median $21 across 33 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $50 across 21 hospitalsMA$50Oregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $39 across 16 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $82 across 12 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $16 across 35 hospitalsPA$16New Jersey: median $15 across 31 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 47 hospitalsCA$52Utah: median $320 across 27 hospitalsUT$320Colorado: 8 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $58 across 11 hospitalsNC$58South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $32 across 13 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $40 across 20 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $78 across 37 hospitalsTX$78Florida: median $98 across 12 hospitalsFL$98
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT27$320+515%$320 – $376
Florida FL12$98+89%$20 – $255
Indiana IN12$82+58%$68 – $120
Texas TX37$78+50%$31 – $78
Illinois IL25$67+28%$22 – $121
Montana MT11$63+21%$62 – $83
North Carolina NC11$58+12%$43 – $64
California CA47$52−1%$52 – $75
Vermont VT11$51−2%$38 – $114
Massachusetts MA21$50−4%$30 – $116
Mississippi MS20$40−22%$23 – $57
Iowa IA16$39−26%$39 – $56
Wisconsin WI10$36−30%$30 – $70
Oklahoma OK13$32−38%$29 – $59
New York NY33$21−60%$14 – $49
Michigan MI16$19−63%$19 – $64
Pennsylvania PA35$16−70%$10 – $51
New Jersey NJ31$15−71%$14 – $67
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care400$52$19 – $80
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access97$68$38 – $121
Ownership
For-profit49$59$20 – $141
Government56$43$19 – $74
Non-profit402$52$22 – $105
System affiliation
Part of a system434$52$20 – $105
Independent73$56$26 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$52
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

346 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $32 and $105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 346 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$36$59$82$213

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $213).

Of the 402 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 346 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

507 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 567 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted507
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code567

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 GIARDIA AG IF.

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, “Giardia parasite antigen test by fluorescent staining (CPT 87269) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87269-giardia-parasite-antigen-test-by-fluorescent-staining