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

DNA test for Babesia microti

CPT 87469the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that amplifies and detects genetic material from the tick-borne parasite Babesia microti in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $95 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,284 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $103. Most fall between $46 and $199 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,284
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 1,284 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
$34$57$95$175$316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $316).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $31: 51 hospitals$24$31 – $41: 110 hospitals$41 – $55: 89 hospitals$41$55 – $73: 200 hospitals$73 – $96: 143 hospitals$73$96 – $127: 152 hospitals$127 – $169: 138 hospitals$127$169 – $223: 116 hospitals$223 – $296: 72 hospitals$223$296 – $392: 85 hospitals$296median $95price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,156 of 1,284 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$3151
$31$41110
$41$5589
$55$73200
$73$96143
$96$127152
$127$169138
$169$223116
$223$29672
$296$39285

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $95.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $90 across 23 hospitalsME$90Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $80 across 19 hospitalsNH$80Washington: median $89 across 13 hospitalsWA$89Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $61 across 14 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $91 across 59 hospitalsMN$91Illinois: median $150 across 41 hospitalsIL$150Wisconsin: median $123 across 89 hospitalsWI$123Michigan: median $57 across 30 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $62 across 72 hospitalsNY$62Massachusetts: median $118 across 43 hospitalsMA$118Oregon: median $76 across 11 hospitalsOR$76Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $67 across 29 hospitalsIA$67Indiana: median $59 across 26 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $105 across 64 hospitalsOH$105Pennsylvania: median $148 across 83 hospitalsPA$148New Jersey: median $39 across 36 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: median $76 across 20 hospitalsCT$76Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $69 across 36 hospitalsCA$69Utah: median $61 across 24 hospitalsUT$61Colorado: median $120 across 24 hospitalsCO$120Nebraska: median $125 across 15 hospitalsNE$125Missouri: median $142 across 42 hospitalsMO$142Kentucky: median $68 across 26 hospitalsKY$68West Virginia: median $133 across 21 hospitalsWV$133Virginia: median $108 across 42 hospitalsVA$108Maryland: median $168 across 20 hospitalsMD$168Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $119 across 16 hospitalsKS$119Arkansas: median $23 across 25 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $62 across 29 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $95 across 33 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $323 across 14 hospitalsSC$323Oklahoma: median $105 across 23 hospitalsOK$105Louisiana: median $60 across 12 hospitalsLA$60Mississippi: median $27 across 17 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $223 across 37 hospitalsGA$223Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $76 across 60 hospitalsTX$76Florida: median $112 across 36 hospitalsFL$112
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $95. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC14$323+242%$76 – $323
Georgia GA37$223+136%$84 – $223
Maryland MD20$168+78%$119 – $387
Illinois IL41$150+59%$74 – $202
Pennsylvania PA83$148+57%$53 – $364
Missouri MO42$142+50%$45 – $214
West Virginia WV21$133+41%$133 – $133
Nebraska NE15$125+32%$71 – $179
Wisconsin WI89$123+31%$70 – $201
Colorado CO24$120+27%$95 – $175
Kansas KS16$119+25%$65 – $213
Massachusetts MA43$118+25%$70 – $226
Florida FL36$112+19%$35 – $235
Virginia VA42$108+14%$45 – $406
Oklahoma OK23$105+11%$61 – $187
Ohio OH64$105+11%$93 – $108
North Carolina NC33$95+1%$41 – $317
Minnesota MN59$91−4%$33 – $174
Maine ME23$90−5%$35 – $148
Washington WA13$89−6%$50 – $229
New Hampshire NH19$80−16%$35 – $235
Texas TX60$76−19%$35 – $76
Oregon OR11$76−20%$76 – $107
Connecticut CT20$76−20%$62 – $109
California CA36$69−27%$69 – $184
Kentucky KY26$68−28%$35 – $733
Iowa IA29$67−29%$67 – $137
New York NY72$62−34%$35 – $171
Tennessee TN29$62−35%$46 – $71
North Dakota ND14$61−35%$55 – $95
Utah UT24$61−36%$61 – $71
Louisiana LA12$60−37%$28 – $188
Indiana IN26$59−37%$44 – $214
Michigan MI30$57−40%$18 – $83
New Jersey NJ36$39−59%$35 – $351
Mississippi MS17$27−71%$25 – $50
Arkansas AR25$23−76%$23 – $277
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $95.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care977$93$44 – $209
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access285$105$48 – $188
Ownership
For-profit81$99$47 – $223
Government145$88$35 – $202
Non-profit1,054$95$49 – $191
System affiliation
Part of a system1,152$95$46 – $191
Independent132$89$48 – $223

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$153
Median cash price$95
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

943 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $97 and the average of the middle 60% is $107; most fall between $56 and $199.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 943 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
$37$62$97$176$312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $312).

Of the 1,013 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 943 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,284 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,372 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,284
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
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 — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,372

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 BABESIA MICROTI AMP PRB.

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, “DNA test for Babesia microti (CPT 87469) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87469-dna-test-for-babesia-microti