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

Rapid trichomonas test read by eye

CPT 87808the billing code this page is about

A quick antigen test for the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis from a genital specimen, with the result read visually at the time of testing.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 709 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $48. Most fall between $20 and $81 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
709
States
48
Filings dated
Jan 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 709 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
$15$23$47$70$108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $108).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $17: 68 hospitals$13$17 – $22: 56 hospitals$22 – $28: 62 hospitals$22$28 – $36: 31 hospitals$36 – $46: 98 hospitals$36$46 – $59: 93 hospitals$59 – $76: 110 hospitals$59$76 – $97: 64 hospitals$97 – $125: 37 hospitals$97$125 – $160: 21 hospitals$125median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (640 of 709 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1768
$17$2256
$22$2862
$28$3631
$36$4698
$46$5993
$59$76110
$76$9764
$97$12537
$125$16021

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $23 across 17 hospitalsWA$23Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $62 across 51 hospitalsIL$62Wisconsin: median $53 across 28 hospitalsWI$53Michigan: median $46 across 36 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $15 across 20 hospitalsNY$15Massachusetts: median $60 across 13 hospitalsMA$60Oregon: median $62 across 19 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $39 across 18 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $30 across 44 hospitalsIN$30Ohio: median $44 across 53 hospitalsOH$44Pennsylvania: median $18 across 30 hospitalsPA$18New Jersey: median $17 across 25 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: 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 $54 across 41 hospitalsCA$54Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $69 across 22 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $67 across 26 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $43 across 16 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $78 across 14 hospitalsVA$78Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $20 across 13 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $91 across 15 hospitalsNC$91South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $27 across 32 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $17 across 16 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $46 across 11 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $93 across 54 hospitalsFL$93
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL54$93+97%$47 – $148
North Carolina NC15$91+94%$33 – $91
Virginia VA14$78+66%$21 – $505
Colorado CO22$69+47%$55 – $191
Missouri MO26$67+42%$43 – $81
Oregon OR19$62+32%$49 – $66
Illinois IL51$62+31%$39 – $134
Massachusetts MA13$60+28%$34 – $146
California CA41$54+16%$54 – $83
Wisconsin WI28$53+12%$46 – $69
Texas TX11$46−3%$32 – $117
Michigan MI36$46−3%$21 – $59
Ohio OH53$44−7%$21 – $69
Kentucky KY16$43−9%$16 – $48
Iowa IA18$39−18%$39 – $95
Indiana IN44$30−36%$18 – $46
Oklahoma OK32$27−42%$27 – $62
Washington WA17$23−51%$23 – $64
Tennessee TN13$20−57%$11 – $61
Pennsylvania PA30$18−62%$11 – $108
New Jersey NJ25$17−64%$15 – $17
Mississippi MS16$17−64%$11 – $21
New York NY20$15−67%$15 – $23
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care583$46$18 – $78
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access108$53$25 – $94
Ownership
For-profit105$55$19 – $118
Government71$46$20 – $91
Non-profit529$46$20 – $72
System affiliation
Part of a system630$52$20 – $83
Independent79$38$18 – $69

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$82
Median cash price$47
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

473 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $53 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $23 and $83.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 473 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$27$53$73$108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $108).

Of the 493 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 473 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

709 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 736 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted709
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code736

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 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 trichomonas test read by eye (CPT 87808) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87808-rapid-trichomonas-test-read-by-eye