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

DNA test for Bartonella bacteria

CPT 87471the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that amplifies and detects genetic material from Bartonella henselae or Bartonella quintana bacteria in a patient sample.

Hospitals typically charge $184 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $192. Most fall between $80 and $364 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,393
States
49
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,393 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
$48$97$184$311$513

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($48 vs $513).

How the prices are spread

$36 – $49: 73 hospitals$36$49 – $66: 73 hospitals$66 – $90: 121 hospitals$66$90 – $123: 133 hospitals$123 – $168: 172 hospitals$123$168 – $229: 204 hospitals$229 – $312: 203 hospitals$229$312 – $425: 141 hospitals$425 – $579: 79 hospitals$425$579 – $790: 56 hospitals$579median $184price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,255 of 1,393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$36$4973
$49$6673
$66$90121
$90$123133
$123$168172
$168$229204
$229$312203
$312$425141
$425$57979
$579$79056

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $184.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $146 across 15 hospitalsME$146Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $168 across 35 hospitalsWA$168Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $328 across 14 hospitalsMN$328Illinois: median $200 across 70 hospitalsIL$200Wisconsin: median $143 across 38 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $86 across 28 hospitalsMI$86New York: median $96 across 61 hospitalsNY$96Massachusetts: median $235 across 35 hospitalsMA$235Oregon: median $193 across 14 hospitalsOR$193Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $965 across 10 hospitalsSD$965Iowa: median $67 across 18 hospitalsIA$67Indiana: median $113 across 46 hospitalsIN$113Ohio: median $185 across 90 hospitalsOH$185Pennsylvania: median $179 across 69 hospitalsPA$179New Jersey: median $39 across 40 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $210 across 43 hospitalsCA$210Utah: median $264 across 10 hospitalsUT$264Colorado: median $235 across 15 hospitalsCO$235Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $138 across 15 hospitalsMO$138Kentucky: median $212 across 32 hospitalsKY$212West Virginia: median $175 across 20 hospitalsWV$175Virginia: median $155 across 61 hospitalsVA$155Maryland: median $326 across 19 hospitalsMD$326Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $81 across 19 hospitalsAZ$81New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $688 across 11 hospitalsKS$688Arkansas: median $77 across 12 hospitalsAR$77Tennessee: median $113 across 33 hospitalsTN$113North Carolina: median $254 across 45 hospitalsNC$254South Carolina: median $302 across 38 hospitalsSC$302Oklahoma: median $105 across 36 hospitalsOK$105Louisiana: median $111 across 25 hospitalsLA$111Mississippi: median $159 across 19 hospitalsMS$159Alabama: median $192 across 15 hospitalsAL$192Georgia: median $220 across 58 hospitalsGA$220Hawaii: median $205 across 10 hospitalsHI$205Texas: median $278 across 145 hospitalsTX$278Florida: median $196 across 77 hospitalsFL$196
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $184. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD10$965+424%$164 – $1,600
Kansas KS11$688+274%$347 – $1,235
Minnesota MN14$328+78%$238 – $348
Maryland MD19$326+77%$251 – $376
South Carolina SC38$302+64%$161 – $402
Texas TX145$278+51%$124 – $602
Utah UT10$264+44%$73 – $615
North Carolina NC45$254+38%$58 – $510
Colorado CO15$235+28%$88 – $1,424
Massachusetts MA35$235+28%$82 – $361
Georgia GA58$220+20%$108 – $300
Kentucky KY32$212+15%$105 – $442
California CA43$210+14%$105 – $210
Hawaii HI10$205+12%$204 – $294
Illinois IL70$200+9%$69 – $531
Florida FL77$196+7%$81 – $364
Oregon OR14$193+5%$182 – $325
Alabama AL15$192+4%$35 – $397
Ohio OH90$185+1%$133 – $426
Pennsylvania PA69$179−3%$40 – $447
West Virginia WV20$175−5%$175 – $175
Washington WA35$168−9%$71 – $268
Mississippi MS19$159−14%$88 – $358
Virginia VA61$155−16%$91 – $257
Maine ME15$146−21%$87 – $252
Wisconsin WI38$143−22%$123 – $302
Missouri MO15$138−25%$107 – $193
Indiana IN46$113−38%$57 – $307
Tennessee TN33$113−39%$62 – $259
Louisiana LA25$111−40%$78 – $249
Oklahoma OK36$105−43%$62 – $231
New York NY61$96−48%$36 – $225
Michigan MI28$86−53%$48 – $129
Arizona AZ19$81−56%$40 – $155
Arkansas AR12$77−58%$60 – $242
Iowa IA18$67−64%$67 – $263
New Jersey NJ40$39−79%$35 – $79
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $184.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,165$182$72 – $351
Children’s36$283$193 – $584
Critical access186$190$105 – $406
Ownership
For-profit204$221$81 – $588
Government188$190$91 – $342
Non-profit995$180$76 – $346
System affiliation
Part of a system1,211$183$79 – $361
Independent182$189$88 – $390

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$337
Median cash price$184
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

982 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $185 and the average of the middle 60% is $194; most fall between $90 and $342.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 982 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
$62$107$185$298$452

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $452).

Of the 1,099 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 982 gave a usable cash price; 70 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,539 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here91
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 — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,539

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 BARTONELLA DNA AMP PROBE.

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 Bartonella bacteria (CPT 87471) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87471-dna-test-for-bartonella-bacteria