Lab tests CPT 87070 New Mexico Outpatient

Bacterial culture (wound) cost in New Mexico

In New Mexico, 19 hospitals publish a cash price for bacterial culture of a sample other than urine, blood or stool (wound, throat, fluid): from $23.00 to $255.07, with a median of $84.78. The lowest price is at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services (Gallup). The highest price is 11.1× the lowest.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 87070. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 29, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$23.00Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services

Median$84.78half of hospitals charge less

Highest$255.07in New Mexico

Lowest saves$61.78vs the median

Hospitals in New Mexico, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	File date
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services lowest Gallup · Gallup, NM Group B Strep Culture	$23.00	$77.00	— source file
Mountain View Regional Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM CULTURE BACTERIA OTH	$27.54	$102.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
University of New Mexico Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM CULTURE OTHR SPECIMN AEROBIC	$36.85	$67.00	— source file
Holy Cross Hospital a Div of Taos Health Systems Taos · Taos, NM CULTURE NOSE	$40.00	$50.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Cibola General Hospital Grants · Grants, NM CULTURE SPUTUM MB TC	$44.50	$55.62	— source file
San Juan Regional Medical Center Farmington · Farmington, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$53.50	$107.00	Jun 9, 2026 source file
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Roswell · Roswell, NM Respiratory Culture without Gram Stain	$59.85	$285.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Lovelace Westside Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$80.40	$268.00	— source file
Lovelace Womens Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$80.40	$268.00	— source file
Alta Vista Regional Hospital Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NM CULTURE BACTERIA OTH	$84.78	$169.56	Apr 16, 2026 source file
Artesia General Hospital Artesia · Carlsbad-Artesia, NM CULTURE BONE	$106.80	$178.00	Feb 20, 2026 source file
Sierra Vista Hospital Truth Or Consequences · Truth Or Consequences, NM CATHETER TIP CULTURE SEMIQUANTITATIVE ADDON	$107.03	$142.70	— source file
Mimbres Valley Medical Center Deming · Deming, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$107.86	$215.72	Sep 17, 2026 source file
Lovelace Medical Center Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$112.20	$374.00	— source file
Lovelace UNM Rehabilition Hospital Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$120.00	$400.00	— source file
Los Alamos Medical Center Los Alamos · Albuquerque, NM Culture, bacterial; any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic, with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates	$127.87	$213.12	— source file
Covenant Hospital Hobbs Hobbs · Hobbs, NM HC CULTURE BACTERIA OTHER	$144.06	$343.00	Apr 1, 2026 source file
Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell Roswell · Roswell, NM Bacterial culture, any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic	$229.50	$765.00	— source file
Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces · Las Cruces, NM Culture, bacterial; any other source except urine, blood or stool, aerobic, with isolation and presumptive identification of isolates	$255.07	$425.12	— source file

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro area	Hospitals	Lowest	Median
Albuquerque, NM	6	$36.85	$96.30
Las Cruces, NM	2	$27.54	$141.30
Roswell, NM	2	$59.85	$144.68
Carlsbad-Artesia, NM	1	$106.80	$106.80
Deming, NM	1	$107.86	$107.86
Farmington, NM	1	$53.50	$53.50
Grants, NM	1	$44.50	$44.50
Gallup, NM	1	$23.00	$23.00
Hobbs, NM	1	$144.06	$144.06
Las Vegas, NM	1	$84.78	$84.78
Truth Or Consequences, NM	1	$107.03	$107.03
Taos, NM	1	$40.00	$40.00

Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.

Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.

Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.

Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What it is

A bacterial culture grows bacteria from a sample such as a wound, throat swab, eye or fluid to find which germ causes an infection. It takes one to three days.

What the price covers

The price usually covers running the test; collecting the sample may be billed separately.

Bacterial culture of a sample other than urine, blood or stool (wound, throat, fluid) in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.