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Ultrasound-guided facet joint injection, neck or upper back

CPT 0213Tthe billing code this page is about

Injection of medication into or near a spinal facet joint nerve in the neck or mid-back using ultrasound guidance; this code covers one spinal level on one side.

Hospitals typically charge $1,279 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 148 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,328. Most fall between $688 and $2,162 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
148
States
31
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 148 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
$533$777$1,279$1,963$4,082

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($533 vs $4,082).

How the prices are spread

$444 – $554: 15 hospitals$444$554 – $692: 11 hospitals$692 – $864: 7 hospitals$692$864 – $1,078: 24 hospitals$1,078 – $1,346: 15 hospitals$1,078$1,346 – $1,681: 13 hospitals$1,681 – $2,098: 24 hospitals$1,681$2,098 – $2,619: 9 hospitals$2,619 – $3,270: 2 hospitals$2,619$3,270 – $4,082: 19 hospitals$3,270median $1,279price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (139 of 148 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$444$55415
$554$69211
$692$8647
$864$1,07824
$1,078$1,34615
$1,346$1,68113
$1,681$2,09824
$2,098$2,6199
$2,619$3,2702
$3,270$4,08219

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,279
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,279.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $533 across 12 hospitalsMI$533New York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $966 across 13 hospitalsIN$966Ohio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,963 across 41 hospitalsCA$1,963Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $1,052 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,052
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,279. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$1,963+53%$1,711 – $4,082
Florida FL10$1,052−18%$1,052 – $1,052
Indiana IN13$966−24%$838 – $1,306
Michigan MI12$533−58%$533 – $533
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,279.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care135$1,279$688 – $2,162
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access10fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit127$1,306$688 – $2,201
System affiliation
Part of a system125$1,279$722 – $2,162
Independent23$1,112$430 – $2,308

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,680
Median cash price$1,279
Cash as a share of list, median hospital52%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 48%. 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

100 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,638 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,576; most fall between $734 and $2,627.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 100 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
$524$1,052$1,638$2,201$4,082

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($524 vs $4,082).

Of the 109 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 100 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

148 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 163 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted148
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code163

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Njx Dx/Ther Paraver Fct Jt W/US Cer/Thor 1 Lvl.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Ultrasound-guided facet joint injection, neck or upper back (CPT 0213T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0213t-ultrasound-guided-facet-joint-injection-neck-or-upper-back