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

Mycobacterium avium complex test, direct probe

CPT 87560the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that looks for genetic material of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare in a sample using a direct probe, without amplification.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 337 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $30 and $162 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
337
States
38
Filings dated
Jun 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 337 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$33$64$150$257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $257).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $29: 47 hospitals$22$29 – $38: 30 hospitals$38 – $50: 29 hospitals$38$50 – $66: 49 hospitals$66 – $87: 28 hospitals$66$87 – $116: 12 hospitals$116 – $153: 47 hospitals$116$153 – $202: 28 hospitals$202 – $267: 22 hospitals$202$267 – $352: 15 hospitals$267median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (307 of 337 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$2947
$29$3830
$38$5029
$50$6649
$66$8728
$87$11612
$116$15347
$153$20228
$202$26722
$267$35215

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $58 across 12 hospitalsIL$58Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $38 across 13 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $37 across 31 hospitalsNY$37Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $58 across 14 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $31 across 28 hospitalsPA$31New Jersey: median $30 across 23 hospitalsNJ$30Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $150 across 30 hospitalsCA$150Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $62 across 18 hospitalsVA$62Maryland: median $317 across 11 hospitalsMD$317Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $229 across 11 hospitalsNC$229South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $48 across 13 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $43 across 11 hospitalsGA$43Hawaii: median $135 across 12 hospitalsHI$135Texas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $156 across 26 hospitalsFL$156
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD11$317+394%$251 – $352
North Carolina NC11$229+256%$229 – $243
Florida FL26$156+143%$57 – $248
California CA30$150+133%$117 – $150
Hawaii HI12$135+110%$127 – $267
Virginia VA18$62−3%$54 – $157
Iowa IA14$58−9%$58 – $181
Illinois IL12$58−10%$27 – $96
Oklahoma OK13$48−25%$48 – $58
Georgia GA11$43−33%$43 – $334
Michigan MI13$38−41%$27 – $169
New York NY31$37−43%$27 – $80
Pennsylvania PA28$31−51%$19 – $109
New Jersey NJ23$30−53%$27 – $30
Texas TX9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care294$59$29 – $183
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$77$58 – $150
Ownership
For-profit59$88$27 – $248
Government34$92$27 – $156
Non-profit244$62$30 – $154
System affiliation
Part of a system302$64$30 – $183
Independent35$65$31 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$145
Median cash price$64
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

168 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $90 and the average of the middle 60% is $101; most fall between $48 and $157.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 168 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
$33$48$90$150$240

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $240).

Of the 181 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 168 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

337 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 361 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted337
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code361

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 M.AVIUM-INTRA DNA DIR PROB.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Mycobacterium avium complex test, direct probe (CPT 87560) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87560-mycobacterium-avium-complex-test-direct-probe