CMS Price Transparency Data

Culture, bacterial

Facility: Carnegie Tri-County Municipal Hospital

Billing Code: 87070 (CPT)

The BaseRate · fair price low confidence

A fair price for this

$35

about 3.9× the $9 Medicare rate · typically $8–$124

modeled estimate · not a bill or quote

Medicare pays $9 Fair price $35 Cash price $149 Hospital's list price $281

How we calculate the fair BaseRate →

What each insurance company pays

Which insurers have negotiated a price with this hospital for this procedure — and which haven’t.

4 of 6 major insurers have a published price at this hospital

✓ UnitedHealthcare✓ Blue Cross Blue Shield✓ Aetna✓ Humana CignaKaiser Permanente

Crossed out = this hospital hasn’t published a negotiated price for that insurer for this procedure. It doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t accepted — ask your insurer.

Insurance company	Price range	vs. Medicare
UnitedHealthcaremajor	$5 - $149	58%
Blue Cross Blue Shieldmajor	$20 - $239	232%
Aetnamajor	$24 - $281	278%
Humanamajor	$149 - $281	1729%
Ambetter (Centene)	$194	2251%
WellCare	$149	1729%
+ 5 smaller / regional plans	$14 - $281

Excludes 3 rental-network / third-party entries (e.g. Multiplan, PHCS) — these are pricing networks, not insurers.

Self-Pay How to get the cash price

Tell the billing desk you want to be billed as self-pay — not through insurance — before your visit.
Ask for the cash / prompt-pay discount in writing, with the exact price (about 149), before you agree to anything.
Get it in writing that they won’t also bill your insurance, so the cash price is what you owe.
Check the CPT code on your bill matches exactly: 87070.

Insurance Before you use insurance

Call your insurance company to confirm Carnegie Tri-County Municipal Hospital is in-network.
Ask your insurer whether prior approval is required for CPT code 87070.
Confirm the doctor or provider is in-network too — not just the hospital building.
Check your Explanation of Benefits against the hospital’s final itemized bill.

Estimate your out-of-pocket cost

A rough estimate of what you’d pay with insurance (deductible + coinsurance) versus paying the cash price yourself.

How you’d pay

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