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

Mycobacterium avium complex test, amplified method

CPT 87561the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that detects genetic material of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare by copying it many times so it can be identified in the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $141 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 677 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $161. Most fall between $61 and $359 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
677
States
45
Filings dated
Dec 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 677 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
$39$75$141$290$510

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $510).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $47: 64 hospitals$35$47 – $63: 53 hospitals$63 – $84: 40 hospitals$63$84 – $112: 85 hospitals$112 – $149: 90 hospitals$112$149 – $199: 66 hospitals$199 – $266: 73 hospitals$199$266 – $355: 40 hospitals$355 – $474: 64 hospitals$355$474 – $633: 42 hospitals$474median $141price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (617 of 677 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4764
$47$6353
$63$8440
$84$11285
$112$14990
$149$19966
$199$26673
$266$35540
$355$47464
$474$63342

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $141.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $126 across 27 hospitalsWA$126Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $253 across 11 hospitalsMN$253Illinois: median $175 across 29 hospitalsIL$175Wisconsin: median $510 across 20 hospitalsWI$510Michigan: median $48 across 13 hospitalsMI$48New York: median $36 across 24 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $159 across 11 hospitalsMA$159Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $89 across 14 hospitalsIA$89Indiana: median $75 across 17 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $189 across 32 hospitalsOH$189Pennsylvania: median $198 across 46 hospitalsPA$198New Jersey: median $39 across 34 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 4 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 $426 across 56 hospitalsCA$426Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $149 across 18 hospitalsKY$149West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $127 across 15 hospitalsVA$127Maryland: median $345 across 15 hospitalsMD$345Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $111 across 33 hospitalsTN$111North Carolina: median $95 across 16 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $85 across 24 hospitalsOK$85Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $53 across 10 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $123 across 24 hospitalsGA$123Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $225 across 61 hospitalsTX$225Florida: median $53 across 31 hospitalsFL$53
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $141. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI20$510+262%$85 – $510
California CA56$426+202%$151 – $426
Maryland MD15$345+145%$251 – $374
Minnesota MN11$253+79%$253 – $268
Texas TX61$225+60%$141 – $471
Pennsylvania PA46$198+40%$35 – $523
Ohio OH32$189+34%$104 – $386
Illinois IL29$175+24%$62 – $236
Massachusetts MA11$159+13%$82 – $204
Kentucky KY18$149+5%$104 – $341
Virginia VA15$127−10%$122 – $226
Washington WA27$126−11%$71 – $172
Georgia GA24$123−12%$118 – $167
Tennessee TN33$111−21%$78 – $162
North Carolina NC16$95−32%$50 – $95
Iowa IA14$89−37%$89 – $89
Oklahoma OK24$85−40%$73 – $92
Indiana IN17$75−47%$57 – $293
Mississippi MS10$53−62%$30 – $93
Florida FL31$53−63%$36 – $141
Michigan MI13$48−66%$43 – $510
New Jersey NJ34$39−73%$35 – $146
New York NY24$36−75%$35 – $62
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $141.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care573$139$53 – $341
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access91$162$89 – $493
Ownership
For-profit89$138$62 – $386
Government95$107$56 – $191
Non-profit492$146$62 – $371
System affiliation
Part of a system596$140$58 – $359
Independent81$151$68 – $357

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$304
Median cash price$141
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

463 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $167 and the average of the middle 60% is $187; most fall between $89 and $386.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 463 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$95$167$293$510

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $510).

Of the 514 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 463 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

677 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 726 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted677
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code726

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 AMP 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Mycobacterium avium complex test, amplified method (CPT 87561) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87561-mycobacterium-avium-complex-test-amplified-method