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

Direct probe test for Candida yeast

CPT 87480the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that uses a direct genetic probe, without amplification, to detect Candida species in a patient sample.

Hospitals typically charge $63 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,727 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $35 and $117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,727
States
50
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 1,727 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
$23$38$63$101$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $166).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $26: 129 hospitals$20$26 – $33: 98 hospitals$33 – $41: 188 hospitals$33$41 – $53: 169 hospitals$53 – $68: 257 hospitals$53$68 – $86: 236 hospitals$86 – $110: 195 hospitals$86$110 – $140: 133 hospitals$140 – $179: 99 hospitals$140$179 – $228: 56 hospitals$179median $63price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,560 of 1,727 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$26129
$26$3398
$33$41188
$41$53169
$53$68257
$68$86236
$86$110195
$110$140133
$140$17999
$179$22856

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $63.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $106 across 13 hospitalsNH$106Washington: median $71 across 57 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $73 across 11 hospitalsID$73Montana: median $77 across 15 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $84 across 16 hospitalsND$84Minnesota: median $68 across 48 hospitalsMN$68Illinois: median $86 across 83 hospitalsIL$86Wisconsin: median $77 across 54 hospitalsWI$77Michigan: median $46 across 56 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $55 across 75 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $76 across 35 hospitalsMA$76Oregon: median $48 across 30 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $81 across 24 hospitalsSD$81Iowa: median $44 across 45 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $62 across 74 hospitalsIN$62Ohio: median $62 across 108 hospitalsOH$62Pennsylvania: median $104 across 93 hospitalsPA$104New Jersey: median $22 across 42 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: median $80 across 15 hospitalsCT$80Rhode Island: median $80 across 10 hospitalsRI$80California: median $55 across 59 hospitalsCA$55Utah: median $121 across 33 hospitalsUT$121Colorado: median $66 across 35 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $73 across 44 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $59 across 39 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $43 across 34 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $75 across 13 hospitalsWV$75Virginia: median $71 across 51 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: median $326 across 19 hospitalsMD$326Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $60 across 34 hospitalsAZ$60New Mexico: median $65 across 16 hospitalsNM$65Kansas: median $73 across 28 hospitalsKS$73Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 29 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $81 across 27 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $62 across 19 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $66 across 38 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $36 across 21 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $35 across 21 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $81 across 47 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $150 across 12 hospitalsHI$150Texas: median $45 across 94 hospitalsTX$45Florida: median $47 across 52 hospitalsFL$47
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $63. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD19$326+418%$214 – $384
Hawaii HI12$150+137%$106 – $178
Utah UT33$121+93%$76 – $143
New Hampshire NH13$106+69%$85 – $231
Pennsylvania PA93$104+66%$23 – $236
Illinois IL83$86+37%$39 – $121
North Dakota ND16$84+34%$60 – $140
Georgia GA47$81+29%$39 – $182
South Dakota SD24$81+29%$57 – $105
North Carolina NC27$81+28%$38 – $100
Connecticut CT15$80+28%$56 – $107
Rhode Island RI10$80+27%$47 – $149
Montana MT15$77+23%$45 – $86
Wisconsin WI54$77+22%$63 – $87
Massachusetts MA35$76+21%$41 – $152
West Virginia WV13$75+19%$37 – $122
Nebraska NE44$73+16%$52 – $105
Idaho ID11$73+16%$38 – $121
Kansas KS28$73+16%$57 – $138
Washington WA57$71+13%$40 – $127
Virginia VA51$71+12%$59 – $169
Minnesota MN48$68+8%$29 – $79
Colorado CO35$66+5%$49 – $108
Oklahoma OK38$66+5%$36 – $80
New Mexico NM16$65+3%$53 – $91
Indiana IN74$62−2%$33 – $87
South Carolina SC19$62−2%$57 – $62
Ohio OH108$62−2%$36 – $90
Arizona AZ34$60−5%$23 – $68
Missouri MO39$59−7%$42 – $71
California CA59$55−12%$36 – $136
New York NY75$55−12%$24 – $98
Oregon OR30$48−24%$32 – $79
Florida FL52$47−25%$20 – $140
Michigan MI56$46−27%$27 – $77
Texas TX94$45−29%$22 – $113
Iowa IA45$44−30%$39 – $74
Kentucky KY34$43−31%$34 – $247
Louisiana LA21$36−42%$22 – $48
Tennessee TN29$35−44%$28 – $56
Mississippi MS21$35−45%$20 – $57
New Jersey NJ42$22−65%$20 – $23
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $63.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,261$61$32 – $119
Children’s20$60$36 – $161
Critical access439$69$43 – $108
Ownership
For-profit180$63$29 – $177
Government243$68$36 – $107
Non-profit1,297$62$35 – $113
System affiliation
Part of a system1,482$63$34 – $119
Independent245$71$38 – $106

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$105
Median cash price$63
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,263 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $36 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,263 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
$28$40$63$103$161

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $161).

Of the 1,379 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,263 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,727 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,872 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,727
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here80
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 — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,872

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 CANDIDA DNA DIR 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, “Direct probe test for Candida yeast (CPT 87480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87480-direct-probe-test-for-candida-yeast