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

Trichomonas DNA test, direct probe method

CPT 87660the billing code this page is about

A molecular test that detects genetic material of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis in a sample without an amplification step; billed once per organism tested.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,750 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $35 and $113 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,750
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 1,750 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$64$100$155

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $155).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $24: 116 hospitals$19$24 – $31: 91 hospitals$31 – $40: 185 hospitals$31$40 – $51: 156 hospitals$51 – $65: 260 hospitals$51$65 – $83: 225 hospitals$83 – $106: 236 hospitals$83$106 – $136: 142 hospitals$136 – $174: 111 hospitals$136$174 – $222: 60 hospitals$174median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,582 of 1,750 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$24116
$24$3191
$31$40185
$40$51156
$51$65260
$65$83225
$83$106236
$106$136142
$136$174111
$174$22260

By state

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

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $104 across 12 hospitalsNH$104Washington: median $64 across 53 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $72 across 16 hospitalsMT$72North Dakota: median $84 across 16 hospitalsND$84Minnesota: median $59 across 50 hospitalsMN$59Illinois: median $87 across 88 hospitalsIL$87Wisconsin: median $82 across 64 hospitalsWI$82Michigan: median $43 across 63 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $60 across 76 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $76 across 34 hospitalsMA$76Oregon: median $55 across 27 hospitalsOR$55Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $81 across 24 hospitalsSD$81Iowa: median $43 across 42 hospitalsIA$43Indiana: median $63 across 72 hospitalsIN$63Ohio: median $65 across 107 hospitalsOH$65Pennsylvania: median $95 across 92 hospitalsPA$95New Jersey: median $22 across 42 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: median $90 across 14 hospitalsCT$90Rhode Island: median $80 across 10 hospitalsRI$80California: median $63 across 75 hospitalsCA$63Utah: median $121 across 33 hospitalsUT$121Colorado: median $66 across 35 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $77 across 45 hospitalsNE$77Missouri: median $59 across 39 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $43 across 34 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $50 across 11 hospitalsWV$50Virginia: median $71 across 49 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: median $98 across 24 hospitalsMD$98Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $60 across 31 hospitalsAZ$60New Mexico: median $65 across 17 hospitalsNM$65Kansas: median $74 across 28 hospitalsKS$74Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 21 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $81 across 27 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $62 across 21 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $66 across 37 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $37 across 21 hospitalsLA$37Mississippi: median $17 across 17 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $81 across 49 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $139 across 11 hospitalsHI$139Texas: median $63 across 110 hospitalsTX$63Florida: median $47 across 49 hospitalsFL$47
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
Hawaii HI11$139+118%$134 – $178
Utah UT33$121+90%$79 – $143
New Hampshire NH12$104+62%$85 – $231
Maryland MD24$98+54%$80 – $140
Pennsylvania PA92$95+49%$23 – $236
Connecticut CT14$90+41%$61 – $109
Illinois IL88$87+36%$41 – $125
North Dakota ND16$84+32%$71 – $130
Wisconsin WI64$82+28%$63 – $139
South Dakota SD24$81+27%$57 – $105
Georgia GA49$81+26%$39 – $182
North Carolina NC27$81+26%$38 – $100
Rhode Island RI10$80+25%$47 – $149
Nebraska NE45$77+21%$50 – $121
Massachusetts MA34$76+19%$47 – $152
Kansas KS28$74+15%$57 – $141
Montana MT16$72+13%$45 – $86
Virginia VA49$71+11%$50 – $169
Oklahoma OK37$66+3%$36 – $80
Colorado CO35$66+3%$41 – $108
Ohio OH107$65+2%$36 – $90
New Mexico NM17$65+1%$44 – $87
Washington WA53$640%$33 – $127
Indiana IN72$63−1%$35 – $87
Texas TX110$63−1%$22 – $105
California CA75$63−2%$48 – $80
South Carolina SC21$62−3%$62 – $102
Arizona AZ31$60−6%$27 – $66
New York NY76$60−6%$24 – $98
Minnesota MN50$59−7%$29 – $92
Missouri MO39$59−8%$42 – $72
Oregon OR27$55−14%$35 – $77
West Virginia WV11$50−22%$37 – $118
Florida FL49$47−26%$16 – $109
Kentucky KY34$43−32%$34 – $247
Michigan MI63$43−33%$26 – $77
Iowa IA42$43−33%$39 – $74
Louisiana LA21$37−42%$19 – $82
Tennessee TN21$35−45%$29 – $56
New Jersey NJ42$22−65%$20 – $23
Mississippi MS17$17−73%$15 – $27
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 care1,282$63$32 – $117
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access442$68$39 – $106
Ownership
For-profit170$66$31 – $177
Government242$64$35 – $109
Non-profit1,331$63$35 – $112
System affiliation
Part of a system1,507$64$34 – $117
Independent243$65$37 – $100

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$106
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

1,292 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $37 and $119.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,292 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
$28$41$67$105$152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $152).

Of the 1,416 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,292 gave a usable cash price; 61 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,750 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 1,903 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,750
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code1,903

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 TRICHOMONAS VAGIN 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, “Trichomonas DNA test, direct probe method (CPT 87660) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87660-trichomonas-dna-test-direct-probe-method