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

Group B strep DNA test, amplified method

CPT 87653the billing code this page is about

A molecular test that copies and detects group B streptococcus genetic material in a sample, commonly from a vaginal or rectal swab; billed once per organism tested.

Hospitals typically charge $108 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,899 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $120. Most fall between $56 and $217 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,899
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 1,899 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$63$108$191$297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $297).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $37: 82 hospitals$29$37 – $49: 123 hospitals$49 – $63: 174 hospitals$49$63 – $82: 190 hospitals$82 – $106: 271 hospitals$82$106 – $138: 189 hospitals$138 – $179: 262 hospitals$138$179 – $232: 180 hospitals$232 – $301: 161 hospitals$232$301 – $391: 79 hospitals$301median $108price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,711 of 1,899 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$3782
$37$49123
$49$63174
$63$82190
$82$106271
$106$138189
$138$179262
$179$232180
$232$301161
$301$39179

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $108.

Alaska: median $171 across 12 hospitalsAK$171Maine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $135 across 11 hospitalsVT$135New Hampshire: median $101 across 11 hospitalsNH$101Washington: median $115 across 44 hospitalsWA$115Idaho: median $109 across 10 hospitalsID$109Montana: median $144 across 16 hospitalsMT$144North Dakota: median $186 across 13 hospitalsND$186Minnesota: median $95 across 76 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $151 across 72 hospitalsIL$151Wisconsin: median $155 across 92 hospitalsWI$155Michigan: median $138 across 67 hospitalsMI$138New York: median $86 across 74 hospitalsNY$86Massachusetts: median $111 across 32 hospitalsMA$111Oregon: median $119 across 33 hospitalsOR$119Nevada: median $56 across 10 hospitalsNV$56Wyoming: median $80 across 11 hospitalsWY$80South Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $82 across 44 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $83 across 76 hospitalsIN$83Ohio: median $110 across 94 hospitalsOH$110Pennsylvania: median $102 across 74 hospitalsPA$102New Jersey: median $39 across 41 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $230 across 79 hospitalsCA$230Utah: median $399 across 35 hospitalsUT$399Colorado: median $155 across 51 hospitalsCO$155Nebraska: median $115 across 39 hospitalsNE$115Missouri: median $68 across 41 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $94 across 38 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: median $104 across 21 hospitalsWV$104Virginia: median $195 across 25 hospitalsVA$195Maryland: median $294 across 25 hospitalsMD$294Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $79 across 18 hospitalsAZ$79New Mexico: median $100 across 21 hospitalsNM$100Kansas: median $86 across 42 hospitalsKS$86Arkansas: median $49 across 17 hospitalsAR$49Tennessee: median $73 across 47 hospitalsTN$73North Carolina: median $92 across 39 hospitalsNC$92South Carolina: median $68 across 30 hospitalsSC$68Oklahoma: median $62 across 36 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: median $57 across 26 hospitalsLA$57Mississippi: median $66 across 26 hospitalsMS$66Alabama: median $67 across 20 hospitalsAL$67Georgia: median $128 across 66 hospitalsGA$128Hawaii: median $217 across 18 hospitalsHI$217Texas: median $180 across 139 hospitalsTX$180Florida: median $61 across 58 hospitalsFL$61
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $108. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$399+269%$106 – $469
Maryland MD25$294+172%$194 – $352
California CA79$230+113%$100 – $297
Hawaii HI18$217+101%$47 – $309
Virginia VA25$195+81%$62 – $196
North Dakota ND13$186+73%$125 – $262
Texas TX139$180+66%$60 – $284
Alaska AK12$171+58%$98 – $200
Colorado CO51$155+43%$87 – $201
Wisconsin WI92$155+43%$90 – $268
Illinois IL72$151+39%$65 – $257
Montana MT16$144+33%$79 – $218
Michigan MI67$138+27%$48 – $195
Vermont VT11$135+25%$71 – $175
Georgia GA66$128+18%$56 – $174
Oregon OR33$119+10%$107 – $161
Nebraska NE39$115+6%$73 – $173
Washington WA44$115+6%$69 – $202
Massachusetts MA32$111+3%$82 – $165
Ohio OH94$110+2%$82 – $188
Idaho ID10$109+1%$66 – $253
West Virginia WV21$104−4%$66 – $172
Pennsylvania PA74$102−6%$40 – $412
New Hampshire NH11$101−7%$28 – $165
New Mexico NM21$100−7%$72 – $126
Minnesota MN76$95−12%$67 – $146
Kentucky KY38$94−13%$60 – $225
North Carolina NC39$92−15%$51 – $279
Kansas KS42$86−20%$48 – $144
New York NY74$86−20%$36 – $127
Indiana IN76$83−23%$50 – $131
Iowa IA44$82−24%$62 – $146
Wyoming WY11$80−26%$74 – $207
Arizona AZ18$79−27%$52 – $288
Tennessee TN47$73−33%$58 – $104
South Carolina SC30$68−37%$51 – $146
Missouri MO41$68−37%$49 – $98
Alabama AL20$67−38%$36 – $114
Mississippi MS26$66−39%$27 – $88
Oklahoma OK36$62−43%$49 – $98
Florida FL58$61−44%$35 – $180
Louisiana LA26$57−47%$42 – $143
Nevada NV10$56−48%$34 – $160
Arkansas AR17$49−55%$23 – $81
New Jersey NJ41$39−64%$35 – $40
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not 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 $108.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,424$105$50 – $220
Children’s21$217$60 – $300
Critical access448$117$73 – $195
Ownership
For-profit198$120$57 – $256
Government278$104$60 – $173
Non-profit1,417$107$54 – $222
System affiliation
Part of a system1,624$109$55 – $224
Independent275$105$58 – $165

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$182
Median cash price$108
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

1,307 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $120 and the average of the middle 60% is $129; most fall between $61 and $231.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,307 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
$42$67$120$202$307

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $307).

Of the 1,441 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,307 gave a usable cash price; 82 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 52 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,899 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,064 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,899
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here107
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code2,064

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 STREPTOCOCCUS GRPB AMP PROBE 87653.

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, “Group B strep DNA test, amplified method (CPT 87653) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87653-group-b-strep-dna-test-amplified-method