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

Gardnerella test by direct DNA probe

CPT 87510the billing code this page is about

A genetic test on a vaginal or other specimen that looks directly for the Gardnerella vaginalis bacteria without amplifying the 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 $66. Most fall between $35 and $114 (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$39$63$103$170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $170).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 121 hospitals$19$25 – $32: 97 hospitals$32 – $41: 191 hospitals$32$41 – $53: 185 hospitals$53 – $68: 244 hospitals$53$68 – $87: 243 hospitals$87 – $112: 197 hospitals$87$112 – $143: 140 hospitals$143 – $184: 86 hospitals$143$184 – $236: 52 hospitals$184median $63price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,556 of 1,727 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$25121
$25$3297
$32$41191
$41$53185
$53$68244
$68$87243
$87$112197
$112$143140
$143$18486
$184$23652

By state

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

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 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 56 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $77 across 15 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $84 across 16 hospitalsND$84Minnesota: median $69 across 49 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $77 across 84 hospitalsIL$77Wisconsin: median $77 across 64 hospitalsWI$77Michigan: median $43 across 62 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $55 across 75 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $78 across 38 hospitalsMA$78Oregon: median $59 across 26 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $81 across 23 hospitalsSD$81Iowa: median $44 across 43 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $62 across 71 hospitalsIN$62Ohio: median $62 across 108 hospitalsOH$62Pennsylvania: median $88 across 95 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: median $22 across 42 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: median $74 across 14 hospitalsCT$74Rhode Island: median $80 across 10 hospitalsRI$80California: median $63 across 76 hospitalsCA$63Utah: median $121 across 33 hospitalsUT$121Colorado: median $66 across 35 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $73 across 44 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $57 across 39 hospitalsMO$57Kentucky: median $43 across 34 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $75 across 13 hospitalsWV$75Virginia: median $100 across 46 hospitalsVA$100Maryland: median $317 across 18 hospitalsMD$317Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $60 across 29 hospitalsAZ$60New Mexico: median $68 across 13 hospitalsNM$68Kansas: median $76 across 27 hospitalsKS$76Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 22 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $81 across 26 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $66 across 19 hospitalsSC$66Oklahoma: median $66 across 38 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $36 across 20 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $18 across 22 hospitalsMS$18Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $81 across 49 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $146 across 11 hospitalsHI$146Texas: median $52 across 93 hospitalsTX$52Florida: median $47 across 49 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 MD18$317+404%$214 – $376
Hawaii HI11$146+132%$137 – $178
Utah UT33$121+93%$77 – $143
New Hampshire NH13$106+69%$85 – $231
Virginia VA46$100+59%$50 – $169
Pennsylvania PA95$88+40%$23 – $236
North Dakota ND16$84+34%$60 – $136
South Dakota SD23$81+29%$57 – $105
Georgia GA49$81+28%$39 – $182
North Carolina NC26$81+28%$38 – $100
Rhode Island RI10$80+27%$47 – $149
Massachusetts MA38$78+25%$47 – $152
Montana MT15$77+23%$45 – $86
Illinois IL84$77+22%$39 – $117
Wisconsin WI64$77+22%$63 – $139
Kansas KS27$76+20%$57 – $138
West Virginia WV13$75+19%$37 – $122
Connecticut CT14$74+18%$48 – $107
Nebraska NE44$73+16%$40 – $108
Washington WA56$71+13%$40 – $127
Minnesota MN49$69+10%$31 – $81
New Mexico NM13$68+8%$52 – $89
Colorado CO35$66+5%$49 – $108
Oklahoma OK38$66+5%$36 – $80
South Carolina SC19$66+4%$57 – $66
California CA76$630%$48 – $139
Indiana IN71$62−1%$33 – $106
Ohio OH108$62−2%$36 – $90
Arizona AZ29$60−5%$26 – $65
Oregon OR26$59−6%$35 – $81
Missouri MO39$57−10%$42 – $76
New York NY75$55−13%$24 – $103
Texas TX93$52−17%$22 – $104
Florida FL49$47−25%$16 – $93
Iowa IA43$44−30%$39 – $77
Kentucky KY34$43−31%$34 – $247
Michigan MI62$43−32%$26 – $77
Louisiana LA20$36−42%$20 – $48
Tennessee TN22$35−44%$27 – $35
New Jersey NJ42$22−65%$20 – $23
Mississippi MS22$18−71%$15 – $35
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not 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 care1,268$61$32 – $117
Children’s20$60$36 – $161
Critical access432$69$40 – $108
Ownership
For-profit170$61$30 – $141
Government243$68$36 – $113
Non-profit1,307$63$35 – $113
System affiliation
Part of a system1,484$63$34 – $117
Independent243$68$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

1,267 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $37 and $121.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,267 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
$27$41$66$106$170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $170).

Of the 1,382 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,267 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 57 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 1,873 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 here81
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 code1,873

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 GARDNER VAG 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, “Gardnerella test by direct DNA probe (CPT 87510) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87510-gardnerella-test-by-direct-dna-probe