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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Patient's own bone from the same incision in spine surgery

CPT 20936the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for harvesting and placing the patient's own bone taken from within the same spinal incision, such as bone fragments or spinous process.

Hospitals typically charge $920 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 465 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,083. Most fall between $356 and $8,870 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
465
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 465 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
$245$420$920$6,172$42,093

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 172× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $42,093).

How the prices are spread

$167 – $303: 39 hospitals$167$303 – $549: 93 hospitals$549 – $996: 83 hospitals$549$996 – $1,804: 40 hospitals$1,804 – $3,271: 26 hospitals$1,804$3,271 – $5,928: 44 hospitals$5,928 – $10,746: 25 hospitals$5,928$10,746 – $19,477: 9 hospitals$19,477 – $35,303: 21 hospitals$19,477$35,303 – $63,989: 39 hospitals$35,303median $920price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (419 of 465 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$167$30339
$303$54993
$549$99683
$996$1,80440
$1,804$3,27126
$3,271$5,92844
$5,928$10,74625
$10,746$19,4779
$19,477$35,30321
$35,303$63,98939

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $920.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,223 across 12 hospitalsID$6,223Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $718 across 28 hospitalsMN$718Illinois: median $396 across 15 hospitalsIL$396Wisconsin: median $857 across 30 hospitalsWI$857Michigan: median $613 across 25 hospitalsMI$613New York: median $4,595 across 30 hospitalsNY$4,595Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $778 across 11 hospitalsOR$778Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $310 across 23 hospitalsIA$310Indiana: median $28,667 across 11 hospitalsIN$28,667Ohio: median $35,250 across 23 hospitalsOH$35,250Pennsylvania: median $234 across 19 hospitalsPA$234New Jersey: median $5,741 across 21 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $543 across 28 hospitalsCA$543Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $749 across 11 hospitalsNE$749Missouri: median $1,127 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,127Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $56,611 across 12 hospitalsVA$56,611Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $702 across 11 hospitalsOK$702Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $797 across 10 hospitalsGA$797Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,772 across 11 hospitalsTX$2,772Florida: median $23,070 across 11 hospitalsFL$23,070
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $920. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA12$56,611+6055%$84 – $96,662
Ohio OH23$35,250+3732%$708 – $68,939
Indiana IN11$28,667+3017%$23,632 – $39,358
Florida FL11$23,070+2408%$708 – $40,759
Idaho ID12$6,223+577%$4,071 – $10,141
New Jersey NJ21$5,741+524%$4,627 – $11,887
New York NY30$4,595+400%$385 – $4,595
Texas TX11$2,772+201%$920 – $7,917
Missouri MO10$1,127+23%$565 – $6,172
Wisconsin WI30$857−7%$413 – $2,019
Georgia GA10$797−13%$797 – $3,388
Oregon OR11$778−15%$322 – $778
Nebraska NE11$749−19%$427 – $3,825
Minnesota MN28$718−22%$292 – $1,197
Oklahoma OK11$702−24%$702 – $702
Michigan MI25$613−33%$242 – $35,022
California CA28$543−41%$543 – $543
Illinois IL15$396−57%$237 – $1,146
Iowa IA23$310−66%$310 – $1,145
Pennsylvania PA19$234−75%$57 – $407
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $920.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care375$1,197$359 – $24,459
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access78$780$356 – $1,451
Ownership
For-profit49$6,829$749 – $37,841
Government53$899$356 – $6,966
Non-profit361$857$322 – $6,311
System affiliation
Part of a system367$1,020$398 – $22,986
Independent98$805$245 – $4,071

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,177
Median cash price$920
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

211 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $543 and the average of the middle 60% is $539; most fall between $292 and $857.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 211 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
$219$310$543$857$1,355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($219 vs $1,355).

Of the 248 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 211 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

465 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 548 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted465
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code548

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Autograft Spine Surgery Local From Same Incision.

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, “Patient's own bone from the same incision in spine surgery (CPT 20936) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20936-patient-s-own-bone-from-the-same-incision-in-spine-surgery