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

Stool test for 12 to 25 gut infection germs by DNA

CPT 87507the billing code this page is about

A single multiplex genetic test on a stool or similar sample that looks for 12 to 25 different diarrhea-causing bacteria, viruses, or parasites at once.

Hospitals typically charge $667 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,613 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $703. Most fall between $390 and $1,205 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,613
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 2,613 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
$280$426$667$1,050$1,698

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($280 vs $1,698).

How the prices are spread

$195 – $250: 66 hospitals$195$250 – $319: 171 hospitals$319 – $409: 234 hospitals$319$409 – $523: 321 hospitals$523 – $669: 397 hospitals$523$669 – $856: 360 hospitals$856 – $1,096: 342 hospitals$856$1,096 – $1,403: 214 hospitals$1,403 – $1,795: 146 hospitals$1,403$1,795 – $2,297: 111 hospitals$1,795median $667price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,362 of 2,613 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$195$25066
$250$319171
$319$409234
$409$523321
$523$669397
$669$856360
$856$1,096342
$1,096$1,403214
$1,403$1,795146
$1,795$2,297111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $667.

Alaska: median $829 across 16 hospitalsAK$829Maine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $952 across 19 hospitalsNH$952Washington: median $723 across 52 hospitalsWA$723Idaho: median $625 across 21 hospitalsID$625Montana: median $839 across 22 hospitalsMT$839North Dakota: median $834 across 33 hospitalsND$834Minnesota: median $669 across 83 hospitalsMN$669Illinois: median $745 across 114 hospitalsIL$745Wisconsin: median $751 across 77 hospitalsWI$751Michigan: median $565 across 63 hospitalsMI$565New York: median $729 across 84 hospitalsNY$729Massachusetts: median $912 across 36 hospitalsMA$912Oregon: median $696 across 32 hospitalsOR$696Nevada: median $760 across 17 hospitalsNV$760Wyoming: median $865 across 14 hospitalsWY$865South Dakota: median $1,227 across 25 hospitalsSD$1,227Iowa: median $580 across 72 hospitalsIA$580Indiana: median $630 across 88 hospitalsIN$630Ohio: median $689 across 130 hospitalsOH$689Pennsylvania: median $687 across 85 hospitalsPA$687New Jersey: median $458 across 48 hospitalsNJ$458Connecticut: median $910 across 21 hospitalsCT$910Rhode Island: median $967 across 10 hospitalsRI$967California: median $845 across 93 hospitalsCA$845Utah: median $1,130 across 40 hospitalsUT$1,130Colorado: median $642 across 54 hospitalsCO$642Nebraska: median $658 across 65 hospitalsNE$658Missouri: median $719 across 69 hospitalsMO$719Kentucky: median $503 across 65 hospitalsKY$503West Virginia: median $667 across 32 hospitalsWV$667Virginia: median $799 across 64 hospitalsVA$799Maryland: median $478 across 38 hospitalsMD$478Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $626 across 40 hospitalsAZ$626New Mexico: median $642 across 11 hospitalsNM$642Kansas: median $890 across 69 hospitalsKS$890Arkansas: median $351 across 29 hospitalsAR$351Tennessee: median $403 across 67 hospitalsTN$403North Carolina: median $694 across 68 hospitalsNC$694South Carolina: median $1,032 across 46 hospitalsSC$1,032Oklahoma: median $422 across 61 hospitalsOK$422Louisiana: median $458 across 46 hospitalsLA$458Mississippi: median $373 across 46 hospitalsMS$373Alabama: median $648 across 26 hospitalsAL$648Georgia: median $458 across 89 hospitalsGA$458Hawaii: median $773 across 15 hospitalsHI$773Texas: median $648 across 196 hospitalsTX$648Florida: median $694 across 104 hospitalsFL$694
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $667. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD25$1,227+84%$918 – $1,903
Utah UT40$1,130+69%$585 – $1,329
South Carolina SC46$1,032+55%$487 – $1,094
Rhode Island RI10$967+45%$433 – $1,250
New Hampshire NH19$952+43%$448 – $1,565
Massachusetts MA36$912+37%$630 – $1,893
Connecticut CT21$910+36%$730 – $2,230
Kansas KS69$890+33%$430 – $1,273
Wyoming WY14$865+30%$525 – $1,040
California CA93$845+27%$479 – $1,008
Montana MT22$839+26%$604 – $1,005
North Dakota ND33$834+25%$543 – $2,171
Alaska AK16$829+24%$390 – $1,248
Virginia VA64$799+20%$350 – $1,694
Hawaii HI15$773+16%$554 – $2,356
Nevada NV17$760+14%$258 – $1,251
Wisconsin WI77$751+13%$530 – $2,084
Illinois IL114$745+12%$530 – $1,199
New York NY84$729+9%$417 – $1,477
Washington WA52$723+8%$428 – $1,331
Missouri MO69$719+8%$433 – $1,290
Oregon OR32$696+4%$518 – $1,268
North Carolina NC68$694+4%$356 – $962
Florida FL104$694+4%$280 – $1,608
Ohio OH130$689+3%$512 – $1,423
Pennsylvania PA85$687+3%$454 – $1,597
Minnesota MN83$6690%$362 – $832
West Virginia WV32$6670%$555 – $1,270
Nebraska NE65$658−1%$526 – $1,048
Alabama AL26$648−3%$416 – $1,178
Texas TX196$648−3%$417 – $1,269
Colorado CO54$642−4%$396 – $985
New Mexico NM11$642−4%$402 – $1,030
Indiana IN88$630−6%$427 – $1,048
Arizona AZ40$626−6%$410 – $1,584
Idaho ID21$625−6%$468 – $1,130
Iowa IA72$580−13%$400 – $707
Michigan MI63$565−15%$260 – $912
Kentucky KY65$503−25%$279 – $1,250
Maryland MD38$478−28%$192 – $981
New Jersey NJ48$458−31%$417 – $479
Louisiana LA46$458−31%$222 – $781
Georgia GA89$458−31%$280 – $1,032
Oklahoma OK61$422−37%$303 – $788
Tennessee TN67$403−40%$198 – $683
Mississippi MS46$373−44%$238 – $564
Arkansas AR29$351−47%$295 – $684
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $667.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,822$637$364 – $1,229
Children’s56$930$456 – $1,966
Critical access727$711$430 – $1,130
Ownership
For-profit355$657$306 – $1,578
Government469$663$352 – $1,051
Non-profit1,781$675$403 – $1,179
System affiliation
Part of a system2,150$657$377 – $1,227
Independent463$702$416 – $1,115

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,174
Median cash price$667
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

1,759 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $681 and the average of the middle 60% is $711; most fall between $393 and $1,192.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,759 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
$287$438$681$1,057$1,683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($287 vs $1,683).

Of the 1,940 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,759 gave a usable cash price; 92 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,613 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,843 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,613
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here123
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code2,843

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 July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC GI Panel Multiplex Pcr.

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, “Stool test for 12 to 25 gut infection germs by DNA (CPT 87507) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87507-stool-test-for-12-to-25-gut-infection-germs-by-dna