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Stool test for white blood cells

CPT 89055the billing code this page is about

Microscopic check of a stool sample for the presence or rough amount of white blood cells.

Hospitals typically charge $38 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,188 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $40. Most fall between $15 and $75 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,188
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 2,188 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
$8$19$38$65$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $125).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 85 hospitals$5$7 – $11: 125 hospitals$11 – $16: 145 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 257 hospitals$23 – $34: 301 hospitals$23$34 – $51: 355 hospitals$51 – $75: 382 hospitals$51$75 – $111: 175 hospitals$111 – $164: 99 hospitals$111$164 – $242: 54 hospitals$164median $38price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,978 of 2,188 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$785
$7$11125
$11$16145
$16$23257
$23$34301
$34$51355
$51$75382
$75$111175
$111$16499
$164$24254

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $38.

Alaska: median $78 across 11 hospitalsAK$78Maine: median $43 across 22 hospitalsME$43Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $25 across 11 hospitalsNH$25Washington: median $31 across 59 hospitalsWA$31Idaho: median $35 across 11 hospitalsID$35Montana: median $49 across 19 hospitalsMT$49North Dakota: median $36 across 13 hospitalsND$36Minnesota: median $40 across 55 hospitalsMN$40Illinois: median $49 across 100 hospitalsIL$49Wisconsin: median $47 across 43 hospitalsWI$47Michigan: median $14 across 49 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $19 across 83 hospitalsNY$19Massachusetts: median $32 across 40 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $41 across 34 hospitalsOR$41Nevada: median $31 across 15 hospitalsNV$31Wyoming: median $47 across 13 hospitalsWY$47South Dakota: median $87 across 32 hospitalsSD$87Iowa: median $44 across 65 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $52 across 63 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $30 across 66 hospitalsOH$30Pennsylvania: median $23 across 84 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $5 across 46 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $22 across 10 hospitalsCT$22Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $58 across 95 hospitalsCA$58Utah: median $414 across 34 hospitalsUT$414Colorado: median $32 across 49 hospitalsCO$32Nebraska: median $57 across 51 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $38 across 47 hospitalsMO$38Kentucky: median $33 across 32 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $25 across 20 hospitalsWV$25Virginia: median $25 across 58 hospitalsVA$25Maryland: median $14 across 36 hospitalsMD$14Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $111 across 29 hospitalsAZ$111New Mexico: median $59 across 11 hospitalsNM$59Kansas: median $30 across 68 hospitalsKS$30Arkansas: median $19 across 22 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $14 across 47 hospitalsTN$14North Carolina: median $34 across 58 hospitalsNC$34South Carolina: median $44 across 38 hospitalsSC$44Oklahoma: median $24 across 64 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $13 across 38 hospitalsLA$13Mississippi: median $20 across 45 hospitalsMS$20Alabama: median $38 across 29 hospitalsAL$38Georgia: median $37 across 75 hospitalsGA$37Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $69 across 185 hospitalsTX$69Florida: median $115 across 91 hospitalsFL$115
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $38. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$414+990%$62 – $487
Florida FL91$115+202%$17 – $289
Arizona AZ29$111+192%$9 – $242
South Dakota SD32$87+129%$44 – $128
Alaska AK11$78+105%$56 – $119
Texas TX185$69+82%$29 – $113
New Mexico NM11$59+55%$16 – $71
California CA95$58+53%$11 – $90
Nebraska NE51$57+49%$22 – $94
Indiana IN63$52+36%$26 – $99
Illinois IL100$49+29%$30 – $86
Montana MT19$49+28%$26 – $61
Wyoming WY13$47+24%$9 – $52
Wisconsin WI43$47+23%$36 – $53
South Carolina SC38$44+16%$25 – $104
Iowa IA65$44+15%$22 – $56
Maine ME22$43+13%$8 – $69
Oregon OR34$41+9%$32 – $54
Minnesota MN55$40+4%$21 – $57
Alabama AL29$38+1%$22 – $94
Missouri MO47$38+1%$21 – $63
Georgia GA75$37−4%$8 – $60
North Dakota ND13$36−5%$27 – $54
Idaho ID11$35−9%$20 – $43
North Carolina NC58$34−10%$25 – $52
Kentucky KY32$33−12%$15 – $99
Massachusetts MA40$32−16%$14 – $59
Colorado CO49$32−16%$25 – $59
Washington WA59$31−19%$19 – $54
Nevada NV15$31−19%$13 – $69
Ohio OH66$30−21%$19 – $44
Kansas KS68$30−22%$18 – $51
New Hampshire NH11$25−34%$16 – $73
Virginia VA58$25−36%$20 – $78
West Virginia WV20$25−36%$9 – $46
Oklahoma OK64$24−36%$14 – $51
Pennsylvania PA84$23−41%$5 – $62
Connecticut CT10$22−41%$15 – $31
Mississippi MS45$20−48%$11 – $32
New York NY83$19−49%$6 – $68
Arkansas AR22$19−49%$9 – $35
Tennessee TN47$14−62%$8 – $93
Michigan MI49$14−64%$6 – $36
Maryland MD36$14−64%$11 – $16
Louisiana LA38$13−66%$7 – $37
New Jersey NJ46$5−87%$4 – $28
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not 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 $38.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,540$35$13 – $78
Children’s37$34$20 – $75
Critical access605$44$21 – $72
Ownership
For-profit292$53$16 – $250
Government387$37$17 – $66
Non-profit1,503$37$15 – $68
System affiliation
Part of a system1,781$40$15 – $81
Independent407$34$16 – $65

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$67
Median cash price$38
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,524 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $39 and the average of the middle 60% is $40; most fall between $16 and $73.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,524 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
$9$19$39$65$115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $115).

Of the 1,684 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,524 gave a usable cash price; 87 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,188 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,400 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,188
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here126
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,400

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 July 20, 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as LEUKOCYTE ASSESSMENT FECAL.

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, “Stool test for white blood cells (CPT 89055) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89055-stool-test-for-white-blood-cells