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

Fat stain on stool, urine, or sputum

CPT 89125the billing code this page is about

Microscopic examination of a stool, urine, or respiratory sample after staining to look for fat.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,007 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $36. Most fall between $12 and $69 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,007
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 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 1,007 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
$7$17$34$59$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $93).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 87 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 54 hospitals$11 – $16: 63 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 99 hospitals$22 – $31: 132 hospitals$22$31 – $43: 115 hospitals$43 – $59: 171 hospitals$43$59 – $83: 123 hospitals$83 – $115: 49 hospitals$83$115 – $160: 32 hospitals$115median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (925 of 1,007 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$887
$8$1154
$11$1663
$16$2299
$22$31132
$31$43115
$43$59171
$59$83123
$83$11549
$115$16032

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $24 across 25 hospitalsWA$24Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $30 across 10 hospitalsND$30Minnesota: median $45 across 26 hospitalsMN$45Illinois: median $40 across 31 hospitalsIL$40Wisconsin: median $48 across 52 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $23 across 35 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $12 across 38 hospitalsNY$12Massachusetts: median $62 across 11 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $42 across 16 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $52 across 15 hospitalsSD$52Iowa: median $46 across 29 hospitalsIA$46Indiana: median $16 across 37 hospitalsIN$16Ohio: median $35 across 66 hospitalsOH$35Pennsylvania: median $7 across 34 hospitalsPA$7New Jersey: median $6 across 31 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: 9 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 $48 across 62 hospitalsCA$48Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $45 across 20 hospitalsCO$45Nebraska: median $26 across 31 hospitalsNE$26Missouri: median $71 across 32 hospitalsMO$71Kentucky: median $28 across 26 hospitalsKY$28West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $40 across 10 hospitalsVA$40Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $49 across 17 hospitalsKS$49Arkansas: median $38 across 11 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $14 across 25 hospitalsTN$14North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $62 across 19 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $24 across 18 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $12 across 20 hospitalsLA$12Mississippi: median $22 across 20 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $21 across 11 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $31 across 23 hospitalsGA$31Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $29 across 79 hospitalsTX$29Florida: median $34 across 43 hospitalsFL$34
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Missouri MO32$71+113%$37 – $167
South Carolina SC19$62+86%$51 – $160
Massachusetts MA11$62+83%$26 – $134
South Dakota SD15$52+55%$44 – $57
Kansas KS17$49+46%$27 – $70
California CA62$48+43%$25 – $80
Wisconsin WI52$48+42%$32 – $60
Iowa IA29$46+37%$22 – $56
Colorado CO20$45+35%$38 – $411
Minnesota MN26$45+35%$29 – $62
Oregon OR16$42+24%$24 – $71
Illinois IL31$40+19%$16 – $72
Virginia VA10$40+19%$27 – $40
Arkansas AR11$38+12%$15 – $38
Ohio OH66$35+5%$19 – $61
Florida FL43$34+1%$7 – $130
Georgia GA23$31−8%$9 – $122
North Dakota ND10$30−9%$22 – $36
Texas TX79$29−14%$23 – $84
Kentucky KY26$28−16%$18 – $48
Nebraska NE31$26−21%$18 – $49
Oklahoma OK18$24−28%$16 – $45
Washington WA25$24−29%$10 – $52
Michigan MI35$23−32%$8 – $43
Mississippi MS20$22−36%$13 – $40
Alabama AL11$21−37%$9 – $40
Indiana IN37$16−52%$9 – $77
Tennessee TN25$14−57%$8 – $36
New York NY38$12−63%$6 – $22
Louisiana LA20$12−65%$6 – $46
Pennsylvania PA34$7−79%$4 – $41
New Jersey NJ31$6−81%$6 – $7
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care749$31$10 – $73
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access236$42$19 – $62
Ownership
For-profit118$42$14 – $164
Government139$36$12 – $64
Non-profit746$32$12 – $62
System affiliation
Part of a system855$33$12 – $66
Independent152$35$13 – $73

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$58
Median cash price$34
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

668 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $38; most fall between $17 and $66.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 668 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
$11$19$36$60$85

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $85).

Of the 735 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 668 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,007 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,095 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,007
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code1,095

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 FAT STAIN OF STOOL; URINE; OR RESPIRATORY SECRETIONS.

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, “Fat stain on stool, urine, or sputum (CPT 89125) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89125-fat-stain-on-stool-urine-or-sputum