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Lab tests CPT 87070 Puerto Rico Outpatient

Bacterial culture (wound) cost in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, 6 hospitals publish a cash price for bacterial culture of a sample other than urine, blood or stool (wound, throat, fluid): from $20.00 to $35.46, with a median of $30.00. The lowest price is at Hospital de la Concepcion (San German). The highest price is 1.8× 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 28, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$20.00Hospital de la Concepcion
Median$30.00half of hospitals charge less
Highest$35.46in Puerto Rico
Lowest saves$10.00vs the median

Hospitals in Puerto Rico, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Hospital de la Concepcion lowest San German · Mayagüez, PR Culture Yeast $20.00 $20.00 Dec 26, 2024
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Bella Vista Hospital Mayaguez · Mayagüez, PR CULTURE, FLUID $25.00 $25.00 —
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Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon · San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Culture Catheter $30.00 $30.00 —
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Doctors' Center Hospital - San Juan Santurce · San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR Culture Tissue Biopsy $30.00 $30.00 —
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Hospital Comunitario Buen Samaritano Aguadilla · Aguadilla, PR EYE CULTURE $35.00 $35.00 —
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Mayaguez Medical Center Mayaguez · Mayagüez, PR Catheter Tip Culture $35.46 $35.46 Mar 31, 2026
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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.
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More
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 areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Mayagüez, PR 3 $20.00 $25.00
San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR 2 $30.00 $30.00
Aguadilla, PR 1 $35.00 $35.00
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.