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

Trichomonas DNA test, amplified method

CPT 87661the billing code this page is about

A molecular test that copies and detects genetic material of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis in a sample; billed once per organism tested.

Hospitals typically charge $88 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,961 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $92. Most fall between $43 and $159 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,961
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 2,961 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
$31$50$88$142$217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $217).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $30: 123 hospitals$23$30 – $39: 210 hospitals$39 – $50: 239 hospitals$39$50 – $64: 331 hospitals$64 – $82: 294 hospitals$64$82 – $106: 403 hospitals$106 – $136: 395 hospitals$106$136 – $174: 321 hospitals$174 – $224: 227 hospitals$174$224 – $288: 125 hospitals$224median $88price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,668 of 2,961 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$30123
$30$39210
$39$50239
$50$64331
$64$82294
$82$106403
$106$136395
$136$174321
$174$224227
$224$288125

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $88.

Alaska: median $98 across 19 hospitalsAK$98Maine: median $93 across 28 hospitalsME$93Vermont: median $51 across 13 hospitalsVT$51New Hampshire: median $115 across 22 hospitalsNH$115Washington: median $104 across 72 hospitalsWA$104Idaho: median $78 across 22 hospitalsID$78Montana: median $96 across 23 hospitalsMT$96North Dakota: median $105 across 24 hospitalsND$105Minnesota: median $64 across 90 hospitalsMN$64Illinois: median $125 across 129 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $131 across 100 hospitalsWI$131Michigan: median $55 across 98 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $84 across 110 hospitalsNY$84Massachusetts: median $136 across 49 hospitalsMA$136Oregon: median $66 across 47 hospitalsOR$66Nevada: median $69 across 18 hospitalsNV$69Wyoming: median $126 across 12 hospitalsWY$126South Dakota: median $125 across 18 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $94 across 71 hospitalsIA$94Indiana: median $89 across 94 hospitalsIN$89Ohio: median $86 across 137 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $140 across 119 hospitalsPA$140New Jersey: median $40 across 54 hospitalsNJ$40Connecticut: median $84 across 22 hospitalsCT$84Rhode Island: median $76 across 10 hospitalsRI$76California: median $98 across 118 hospitalsCA$98Utah: median $83 across 39 hospitalsUT$83Colorado: median $88 across 55 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: median $96 across 55 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $119 across 70 hospitalsMO$119Kentucky: median $68 across 61 hospitalsKY$68West Virginia: median $75 across 40 hospitalsWV$75Virginia: median $110 across 71 hospitalsVA$110Maryland: median $112 across 38 hospitalsMD$112Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $104 across 38 hospitalsAZ$104New Mexico: median $91 across 28 hospitalsNM$91Kansas: median $117 across 65 hospitalsKS$117Arkansas: median $36 across 38 hospitalsAR$36Tennessee: median $63 across 72 hospitalsTN$63North Carolina: median $71 across 82 hospitalsNC$71South Carolina: median $128 across 48 hospitalsSC$128Oklahoma: median $69 across 69 hospitalsOK$69Louisiana: median $54 across 48 hospitalsLA$54Mississippi: median $42 across 52 hospitalsMS$42Alabama: median $70 across 39 hospitalsAL$70Georgia: median $91 across 98 hospitalsGA$91Hawaii: median $159 across 16 hospitalsHI$159Texas: median $87 across 205 hospitalsTX$87Florida: median $77 across 108 hospitalsFL$77
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $88. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI16$159+80%$91 – $244
Pennsylvania PA119$140+59%$40 – $307
Massachusetts MA49$136+55%$82 – $221
Wisconsin WI100$131+49%$81 – $175
South Carolina SC48$128+46%$78 – $166
Wyoming WY12$126+44%$74 – $171
South Dakota SD18$125+42%$106 – $271
Illinois IL129$125+42%$53 – $194
Missouri MO70$119+36%$58 – $187
Kansas KS65$117+33%$64 – $170
New Hampshire NH22$115+30%$24 – $231
Maryland MD38$112+28%$85 – $146
Virginia VA71$110+25%$31 – $181
North Dakota ND24$105+20%$59 – $170
Washington WA72$104+19%$56 – $176
Arizona AZ38$104+18%$40 – $462
California CA118$98+11%$27 – $123
Alaska AK19$98+11%$53 – $278
Montana MT23$96+9%$54 – $160
Nebraska NE55$96+9%$79 – $137
Iowa IA71$94+7%$67 – $158
Maine ME28$93+6%$40 – $137
Georgia GA98$91+4%$61 – $137
New Mexico NM28$91+3%$61 – $134
Indiana IN94$89+2%$49 – $112
Colorado CO55$88−1%$49 – $183
Texas TX205$87−1%$51 – $152
Ohio OH137$86−2%$46 – $141
New York NY110$84−5%$38 – $149
Connecticut CT22$84−5%$61 – $133
Utah UT39$83−6%$61 – $98
Idaho ID22$78−12%$48 – $140
Florida FL108$77−13%$33 – $163
Rhode Island RI10$76−14%$37 – $212
West Virginia WV40$75−15%$36 – $104
North Carolina NC82$71−20%$41 – $124
Alabama AL39$70−20%$35 – $197
Nevada NV18$69−21%$35 – $184
Oklahoma OK69$69−22%$42 – $120
Kentucky KY61$68−23%$49 – $111
Oregon OR47$66−25%$42 – $142
Minnesota MN90$64−27%$41 – $158
Tennessee TN72$63−28%$31 – $179
Michigan MI98$55−37%$25 – $179
Louisiana LA48$54−39%$28 – $121
Vermont VT13$51−42%$32 – $141
Mississippi MS52$42−52%$28 – $61
New Jersey NJ54$40−54%$35 – $99
Arkansas AR38$36−59%$30 – $130
Delaware DE7not 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 $88.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,102$86$40 – $157
Children’s47$111$68 – $196
Critical access803$100$55 – $166
Ownership
For-profit364$91$42 – $192
Government519$88$43 – $141
Non-profit2,069$89$43 – $160
System affiliation
Part of a system2,425$88$42 – $162
Independent536$89$45 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$147
Median cash price$88
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,038 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $91 and the average of the middle 60% is $96; most fall between $45 and $167.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,038 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
$31$53$91$148$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $221).

Of the 2,246 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,038 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,961 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,211 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,961
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here138
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded111
Hospitals that filed this code3,211

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 July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC Trichomonas Vaginalis Swab.

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, amplified method (CPT 87661) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87661-trichomonas-dna-test-amplified-method