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

Computer prediction of an infection's drug resistance

CPT 87900the billing code this page is about

A software analysis that takes genetic results from an infecting organism and predicts which drugs it is likely to resist, using a regularly updated database.

Hospitals typically charge $279 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,015 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $285. Most fall between $128 and $551 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,015
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,015 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
$79$142$279$458$827

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $827).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $80: 109 hospitals$59$80 – $108: 100 hospitals$108 – $146: 228 hospitals$108$146 – $198: 209 hospitals$198 – $269: 239 hospitals$198$269 – $364: 325 hospitals$364 – $494: 255 hospitals$364$494 – $669: 142 hospitals$669 – $907: 135 hospitals$669$907 – $1,230: 76 hospitals$907median $279price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,818 of 2,015 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$80109
$80$108100
$108$146228
$146$198209
$198$269239
$269$364325
$364$494255
$494$669142
$669$907135
$907$1,23076

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $279.

Alaska: median $450 across 13 hospitalsAK$450Maine: median $343 across 18 hospitalsME$343Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $444 across 13 hospitalsNH$444Washington: median $181 across 47 hospitalsWA$181Idaho: median $246 across 11 hospitalsID$246Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $227 across 12 hospitalsND$227Minnesota: median $295 across 42 hospitalsMN$295Illinois: median $293 across 90 hospitalsIL$293Wisconsin: median $336 across 69 hospitalsWI$336Michigan: median $116 across 38 hospitalsMI$116New York: median $204 across 83 hospitalsNY$204Massachusetts: median $456 across 42 hospitalsMA$456Oregon: median $228 across 28 hospitalsOR$228Nevada: median $130 across 10 hospitalsNV$130Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $150 across 30 hospitalsIA$150Indiana: median $229 across 69 hospitalsIN$229Ohio: median $340 across 110 hospitalsOH$340Pennsylvania: median $370 across 99 hospitalsPA$370New Jersey: median $143 across 53 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: median $259 across 19 hospitalsCT$259Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $110 across 74 hospitalsCA$110Utah: median $306 across 31 hospitalsUT$306Colorado: median $472 across 31 hospitalsCO$472Nebraska: median $330 across 25 hospitalsNE$330Missouri: median $349 across 50 hospitalsMO$349Kentucky: median $320 across 50 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $64 across 23 hospitalsWV$64Virginia: median $406 across 62 hospitalsVA$406Maryland: median $272 across 30 hospitalsMD$272Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $247 across 28 hospitalsAZ$247New Mexico: median $293 across 14 hospitalsNM$293Kansas: median $399 across 16 hospitalsKS$399Arkansas: median $370 across 22 hospitalsAR$370Tennessee: median $228 across 55 hospitalsTN$228North Carolina: median $216 across 75 hospitalsNC$216South Carolina: median $236 across 43 hospitalsSC$236Oklahoma: median $228 across 41 hospitalsOK$228Louisiana: median $228 across 31 hospitalsLA$228Mississippi: median $119 across 23 hospitalsMS$119Alabama: median $215 across 20 hospitalsAL$215Georgia: median $600 across 71 hospitalsGA$600Hawaii: median $622 across 13 hospitalsHI$622Texas: median $204 across 153 hospitalsTX$204Florida: median $126 across 104 hospitalsFL$126
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $279. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI13$622+123%$177 – $1,730
Georgia GA71$600+115%$125 – $1,109
Colorado CO31$472+69%$262 – $1,123
Massachusetts MA42$456+63%$277 – $840
Alaska AK13$450+61%$159 – $970
New Hampshire NH13$444+59%$98 – $899
Virginia VA62$406+45%$224 – $743
Kansas KS16$399+43%$317 – $588
Pennsylvania PA99$370+33%$150 – $1,325
Arkansas AR22$370+32%$116 – $678
Missouri MO50$349+25%$226 – $429
Maine ME18$343+23%$130 – $418
Ohio OH110$340+22%$214 – $584
Wisconsin WI69$336+20%$250 – $720
Nebraska NE25$330+18%$131 – $458
Kentucky KY50$320+15%$167 – $707
Utah UT31$306+10%$306 – $360
Minnesota MN42$295+6%$267 – $394
Illinois IL90$293+5%$142 – $457
New Mexico NM14$293+5%$217 – $456
Maryland MD30$272−3%$26 – $717
Connecticut CT19$259−7%$58 – $584
Arizona AZ28$247−11%$130 – $1,432
Idaho ID11$246−12%$194 – $358
South Carolina SC43$236−15%$218 – $434
Indiana IN69$229−18%$149 – $308
Oklahoma OK41$228−18%$124 – $382
Tennessee TN55$228−18%$147 – $358
Louisiana LA31$228−19%$128 – $411
Oregon OR28$228−19%$157 – $397
North Dakota ND12$227−19%$203 – $405
North Carolina NC75$216−23%$133 – $422
Alabama AL20$215−23%$130 – $379
New York NY83$204−27%$130 – $448
Texas TX153$204−27%$98 – $547
Washington WA47$181−35%$98 – $492
Iowa IA30$150−46%$133 – $385
New Jersey NJ53$143−49%$130 – $262
Nevada NV10$130−53%$65 – $456
Florida FL104$126−55%$61 – $453
Mississippi MS23$119−58%$57 – $281
Michigan MI38$116−58%$35 – $325
California CA74$110−61%$58 – $353
West Virginia WV23$64−77%$64 – $320
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $279.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,635$267$124 – $571
Children’s34$225$124 – $348
Critical access338$313$164 – $538
Ownership
For-profit275$293$125 – $779
Government265$216$123 – $449
Non-profit1,467$285$130 – $543
System affiliation
Part of a system1,721$279$126 – $584
Independent294$278$132 – $492

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$478
Median cash price$279
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

1,471 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $287 and the average of the middle 60% is $298; most fall between $132 and $584.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,471 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
$82$149$287$474$856

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $856).

Of the 1,638 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,471 gave a usable cash price; 103 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,015 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,215 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,015
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here134
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code2,215

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 PHENOTYPE INFECT AGENT DRUG.

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, “Computer prediction of an infection's drug resistance (CPT 87900) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87900-computer-prediction-of-an-infection-s-drug-resistance