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

Rapid chlamydia test read by eye

CPT 87810the billing code this page is about

A quick antigen test for Chlamydia trachomatis from a genital or eye specimen, with the result read visually at the time of testing.

Hospitals typically charge $55 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 239 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $35 and $109 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
239
States
33
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – 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 239 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
$29$35$55$96$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $133).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $25: 6 hospitals$20$25 – $31: 8 hospitals$31 – $38: 50 hospitals$31$38 – $47: 30 hospitals$47 – $58: 16 hospitals$47$58 – $72: 24 hospitals$72 – $88: 13 hospitals$72$88 – $109: 33 hospitals$109 – $135: 32 hospitals$109$135 – $166: 5 hospitals$135median $55price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (217 of 239 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$256
$25$318
$31$3850
$38$4730
$47$5816
$58$7224
$72$8813
$88$10933
$109$13532
$135$1665

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $55.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $17 across 11 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $49 across 28 hospitalsNY$49Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $71 across 11 hospitalsIA$71Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $35 across 23 hospitalsPA$35New Jersey: median $39 across 25 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $96 across 34 hospitalsCA$96Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $133 across 11 hospitalsKY$133West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $62 across 12 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $99 across 10 hospitalsFL$99
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $55. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY11$133+140%$32 – $133
Florida FL10$99+80%$99 – $99
California CA34$96+74%$96 – $133
Iowa IA11$71+29%$71 – $71
Oklahoma OK12$62+13%$62 – $62
New York NY28$49−12%$35 – $87
New Jersey NJ25$39−30%$35 – $39
Pennsylvania PA23$35−37%$24 – $41
Michigan MI11$17−70%$17 – $49
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $55.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care213$62$35 – $106
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$35$32 – $109
Ownership
For-profit27$35$32 – $109
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit194$62$35 – $99
System affiliation
Part of a system213$62$35 – $109
Independent26$49$35 – $62

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$140
Median cash price$55
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

127 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $96 and the average of the middle 60% is $80; most fall between $41 and $112.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 127 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
$32$50$96$109$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $133).

Of the 145 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 127 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

239 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 256 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted239
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code256

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 CHLMYD TRACH 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 chlamydia test read by eye (CPT 87810) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87810-rapid-chlamydia-test-read-by-eye