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

Genetic test for several germs at once, direct probe

CPT 87800the billing code this page is about

A single molecular test panel that looks for the genetic material of multiple organisms using direct probes without amplification; billed once for the multi-organism test.

Hospitals typically charge $119 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 705 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $54 and $268 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
705
States
47
Filings dated
Oct 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 705 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
$43$62$119$225$453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $453).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $35: 13 hospitals$26$35 – $47: 54 hospitals$47 – $63: 77 hospitals$47$63 – $84: 82 hospitals$84 – $113: 77 hospitals$84$113 – $151: 96 hospitals$151 – $202: 62 hospitals$151$202 – $271: 69 hospitals$271 – $364: 56 hospitals$271$364 – $487: 50 hospitals$364median $119price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (636 of 705 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$3513
$35$4754
$47$6377
$63$8482
$84$11377
$113$15196
$151$20262
$202$27169
$271$36456
$364$48750

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $119.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $139 across 17 hospitalsWA$139Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $59 across 24 hospitalsMN$59Illinois: median $121 across 40 hospitalsIL$121Wisconsin: median $225 across 36 hospitalsWI$225Michigan: median $110 across 23 hospitalsMI$110New York: median $107 across 55 hospitalsNY$107Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $128 across 16 hospitalsOR$128Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $67 across 26 hospitalsIA$67Indiana: median $86 across 40 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $148 across 37 hospitalsOH$148Pennsylvania: median $82 across 33 hospitalsPA$82New Jersey: median $48 across 26 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: 5 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 $322 across 45 hospitalsCA$322Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $119 across 11 hospitalsMO$119Kentucky: median $97 across 19 hospitalsKY$97West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $214 across 10 hospitalsMD$214Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $123 across 18 hospitalsTN$123North Carolina: median $60 across 12 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $94 across 25 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: median $77 across 11 hospitalsLA$77Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $65 across 13 hospitalsGA$65Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $175 across 62 hospitalsTX$175Florida: median $28 across 11 hospitalsFL$28
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $119. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$322+170%$24 – $487
Wisconsin WI36$225+88%$191 – $456
Maryland MD10$214+79%$108 – $291
Texas TX62$175+47%$75 – $453
Ohio OH37$148+24%$120 – $162
Washington WA17$139+17%$74 – $186
Oregon OR16$128+7%$122 – $176
Tennessee TN18$123+3%$70 – $167
Illinois IL40$121+1%$77 – $209
Missouri MO11$1190%$82 – $136
Michigan MI23$110−8%$60 – $208
New York NY55$107−10%$44 – $145
Kentucky KY19$97−19%$41 – $496
Oklahoma OK25$94−21%$48 – $200
Indiana IN40$86−28%$58 – $280
Pennsylvania PA33$82−31%$32 – $268
Louisiana LA11$77−36%$46 – $174
Iowa IA26$67−44%$67 – $109
Georgia GA13$65−45%$37 – $302
North Carolina NC12$60−50%$52 – $176
Minnesota MN24$59−50%$13 – $212
New Jersey NJ26$48−60%$44 – $48
Florida FL11$28−77%$26 – $130
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $119.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care540$118$50 – $281
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access151$121$59 – $244
Ownership
For-profit78$117$45 – $318
Government103$99$44 – $156
Non-profit524$128$56 – $285
System affiliation
Part of a system614$121$55 – $281
Independent91$100$50 – $182

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$228
Median cash price$119
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

481 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $146 and the average of the middle 60% is $155; most fall between $68 and $294.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 481 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
$48$76$146$253$453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($48 vs $453).

Of the 519 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 481 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

705 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 748 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted705
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code748

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 DETECT AGNT MULT DNA DIREC.

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, “Genetic test for several germs at once, direct probe (CPT 87800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87800-genetic-test-for-several-germs-at-once-direct-probe