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

Lab-grown drug resistance test, first 10 drugs tested

CPT 87903the billing code this page is about

A culture-based test that measures how an infecting organism responds to antiviral drugs; this code covers the first 1 to 10 drugs tested in the panel.

Hospitals typically charge $832 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,090 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $922. Most fall between $449 and $1,819 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,090
States
49
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 1,090 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
$243$489$832$1,490$3,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($243 vs $3,018).

How the prices are spread

$90 – $134: 33 hospitals$90$134 – $201: 12 hospitals$201 – $300: 27 hospitals$201$300 – $448: 92 hospitals$448 – $669: 233 hospitals$448$669 – $999: 181 hospitals$999 – $1,492: 187 hospitals$999$1,492 – $2,228: 100 hospitals$2,228 – $3,327: 79 hospitals$2,228$3,327 – $4,969: 42 hospitals$3,327median $832price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (986 of 1,090 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$90$13433
$134$20112
$201$30027
$300$44892
$448$669233
$669$999181
$999$1,492187
$1,492$2,228100
$2,228$3,32779
$3,327$4,96942

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $832.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $628 across 25 hospitalsWA$628Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: median $850 across 10 hospitalsND$850Minnesota: median $886 across 23 hospitalsMN$886Illinois: median $1,160 across 55 hospitalsIL$1,160Wisconsin: median $1,135 across 45 hospitalsWI$1,135Michigan: median $674 across 22 hospitalsMI$674New York: median $725 across 41 hospitalsNY$725Massachusetts: median $2,284 across 21 hospitalsMA$2,284Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 9 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 $469 across 15 hospitalsIA$469Indiana: median $782 across 49 hospitalsIN$782Ohio: median $1,181 across 80 hospitalsOH$1,181Pennsylvania: median $562 across 47 hospitalsPA$562New Jersey: median $538 across 46 hospitalsNJ$538Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $788 across 44 hospitalsCA$788Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $243 across 12 hospitalsCO$243Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,423 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,423Kentucky: median $1,466 across 24 hospitalsKY$1,466West Virginia: median $606 across 10 hospitalsWV$606Virginia: median $725 across 24 hospitalsVA$725Maryland: median $924 across 22 hospitalsMD$924Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,178 across 18 hospitalsAZ$1,178New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $852 across 26 hospitalsTN$852North Carolina: median $609 across 30 hospitalsNC$609South Carolina: median $1,352 across 22 hospitalsSC$1,352Oklahoma: median $855 across 26 hospitalsOK$855Louisiana: median $559 across 22 hospitalsLA$559Mississippi: median $381 across 30 hospitalsMS$381Alabama: median $598 across 11 hospitalsAL$598Georgia: median $584 across 27 hospitalsGA$584Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $808 across 96 hospitalsTX$808Florida: median $566 across 68 hospitalsFL$566
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $832. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA21$2,284+174%$1,202 – $4,039
Kentucky KY24$1,466+76%$465 – $2,291
Missouri MO19$1,423+71%$398 – $4,676
South Carolina SC22$1,352+62%$1,125 – $1,728
Ohio OH80$1,181+42%$501 – $1,845
Arizona AZ18$1,178+42%$524 – $4,778
Illinois IL55$1,160+39%$482 – $1,770
Wisconsin WI45$1,135+36%$624 – $3,018
Maryland MD22$924+11%$712 – $1,106
Minnesota MN23$886+6%$624 – $1,072
Oklahoma OK26$855+3%$545 – $1,047
Tennessee TN26$852+2%$480 – $1,676
North Dakota ND10$850+2%$723 – $924
Texas TX96$808−3%$68 – $2,416
California CA44$788−5%$435 – $1,316
Indiana IN49$782−6%$534 – $1,375
New York NY41$725−13%$489 – $2,082
Virginia VA24$725−13%$609 – $5,497
Michigan MI22$674−19%$405 – $1,736
Washington WA25$628−25%$425 – $1,970
North Carolina NC30$609−27%$342 – $5,553
West Virginia WV10$606−27%$284 – $1,758
Alabama AL11$598−28%$433 – $806
Georgia GA27$584−30%$340 – $2,784
Florida FL68$566−32%$118 – $1,224
Pennsylvania PA47$562−32%$396 – $3,541
Louisiana LA22$559−33%$436 – $853
New Jersey NJ46$538−35%$489 – $1,698
Iowa IA15$469−44%$469 – $1,232
Mississippi MS30$381−54%$296 – $650
Colorado CO12$243−71%$76 – $891
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not 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 $832.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care952$818$440 – $1,794
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access116$880$567 – $2,040
Ownership
For-profit175$1,019$454 – $3,263
Government117$605$414 – $1,206
Non-profit793$855$466 – $1,770
System affiliation
Part of a system967$855$453 – $1,845
Independent123$734$435 – $1,472

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,605
Median cash price$832
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

780 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $894 and the average of the middle 60% is $996; most fall between $444 and $1,845.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 780 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
$220$498$894$1,654$3,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($220 vs $3,018).

Of the 893 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 780 gave a usable cash price; 67 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,090 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,217 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,090
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,217

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 DNA HIV W/CULTURE.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Lab-grown drug resistance test, first 10 drugs tested (CPT 87903) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87903-lab-grown-drug-resistance-test-first-10-drugs-tested