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

Rapid group B strep test read by eye

CPT 87802the billing code this page is about

A quick antigen test for group B streptococcus in which the result is read visually by the person performing it; billed once per organism tested.

Hospitals typically charge $57 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 597 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $19 and $168 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
597
States
48
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 597 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
$13$22$57$116$349

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $349).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 80 hospitals$12$17 – $26: 62 hospitals$26 – $38: 68 hospitals$26$38 – $57: 60 hospitals$57 – $85: 67 hospitals$57$85 – $127: 90 hospitals$127 – $190: 39 hospitals$127$190 – $284: 29 hospitals$284 – $423: 22 hospitals$284$423 – $632: 25 hospitals$423median $57price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (542 of 597 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1780
$17$2662
$26$3868
$38$5760
$57$8567
$85$12790
$127$19039
$190$28429
$284$42322
$423$63225

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $57.

Alaska: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $46 across 27 hospitalsWA$46Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $97 across 19 hospitalsIL$97Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $18 across 13 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $23 across 33 hospitalsNY$23Massachusetts: median $28 across 10 hospitalsMA$28Oregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $32 across 11 hospitalsIA$32Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $15 across 25 hospitalsPA$15New Jersey: median $14 across 34 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $83 across 49 hospitalsCA$83Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $632 across 14 hospitalsCO$632Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $248 across 18 hospitalsKY$248West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $134 across 13 hospitalsVA$134Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $304 across 15 hospitalsAZ$304New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $38 across 21 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $95 across 27 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $102 across 17 hospitalsSC$102Oklahoma: median $22 across 16 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: median $43 across 14 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $15 across 14 hospitalsMS$15Alabama: median $38 across 14 hospitalsAL$38Georgia: median $46 across 18 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $262 across 41 hospitalsTX$262Florida: median $68 across 36 hospitalsFL$68
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $57. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO14$632+1009%$237 – $880
Arizona AZ15$304+433%$31 – $304
Texas TX41$262+359%$37 – $759
Kentucky KY18$248+335%$65 – $466
Virginia VA13$134+135%$20 – $190
South Carolina SC17$102+78%$33 – $106
Illinois IL19$97+71%$16 – $566
North Carolina NC27$95+67%$20 – $178
California CA49$83+45%$40 – $113
Florida FL36$68+19%$7 – $750
Georgia GA18$46−19%$26 – $181
Washington WA27$46−20%$31 – $80
Louisiana LA14$43−25%$19 – $55
Alabama AL14$38−33%$12 – $121
Tennessee TN21$38−34%$18 – $75
Iowa IA11$32−44%$32 – $32
Massachusetts MA10$28−51%$16 – $57
New York NY33$23−60%$13 – $69
Oklahoma OK16$22−61%$22 – $38
Michigan MI13$18−69%$16 – $72
Pennsylvania PA25$15−74%$9 – $168
Mississippi MS14$15−74%$10 – $32
New Jersey NJ34$14−75%$13 – $44
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $57.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care506$50$16 – $178
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access76$65$32 – $106
Ownership
For-profit144$92$23 – $402
Government73$39$16 – $95
Non-profit379$52$19 – $131
System affiliation
Part of a system492$65$19 – $179
Independent105$47$21 – $106

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$119
Median cash price$57
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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $67; most fall between $23 and $121.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$18$28$66$113$239

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $239).

Of the 346 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

597 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 654 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted597
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code654

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 Hc Strep B Assay W/Optic.

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, “Rapid group B strep test read by eye (CPT 87802) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87802-rapid-group-b-strep-test-read-by-eye