Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Spinal bone cutting to correct curve, lower back, one level

CPT code CPT 22207the billing code this page is about

Surgery through the back that cuts through all three columns of a single lower-back (lumbar) vertebra to reshape and realign the spine; covers one vertebral segment.

Hospitals typically charge $5,318 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 189 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,427. Most fall between $2,658 and $9,497 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
189
States
38
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 189 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
$1,885$3,485$5,318$8,767$11,395

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,885 vs $11,395).

How the prices are spread

$1,575 – $1,981: 10 hospitals$1,575$1,981 – $2,490: 8 hospitals$2,490 – $3,130: 18 hospitals$2,490$3,130 – $3,935: 12 hospitals$3,935 – $4,947: 23 hospitals$3,935$4,947 – $6,219: 39 hospitals$6,219 – $7,819: 17 hospitals$6,219$7,819 – $9,829: 23 hospitals$9,829 – $12,357: 19 hospitals$9,829$12,357 – $15,535: 2 hospitals$12,357median $5,318price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (171 of 189 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,575$1,98110
$1,981$2,4908
$2,490$3,13018
$3,130$3,93512
$3,935$4,94723
$4,947$6,21939
$6,219$7,81917
$7,819$9,82923
$9,829$12,35719
$12,357$15,5352

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$5,318
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $5,318.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,658 across 24 hospitalsMI$2,658New York: median $7,413 across 16 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $5,802 across 14 hospitalsIA$5,802Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $9,537 across 11 hospitalsOH$9,537Pennsylvania: median $1,755 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,755New Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $5,017 across 11 hospitalsOK$5,017Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,318. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH11$9,537+79%$4,211 – $9,537
New York NY16$7,413+39%$7,263 – $9,058
Iowa IA14$5,802+9%$5,802 – $5,802
New Jersey NJ14$5,3390%$4,350 – $6,839
Oklahoma OK11$5,017−6%$5,017 – $5,017
Michigan MI24$2,658−50%$2,658 – $5,146
Pennsylvania PA16$1,755−67%$1,485 – $5,318
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $5,318.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care157$5,110$2,658 – $9,058
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$4,852$2,658 – $11,395
Ownership
For-profit21$8,683$1,885 – $20,936
Government21$6,197$4,132 – $7,521
Non-profit147$5,050$2,658 – $9,072
System affiliation
Part of a system153$5,318$2,658 – $9,497
Independent36$5,050$2,939 – $9,388

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,822
Median cash price$5,318
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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.

How complete is this

189 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 219 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted189
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code219

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 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Osteotomy Spine Posterior 3 Column Lumbar.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Spinal bone cutting to correct curve, lower back, one level (CPT 22207) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-22207-spinal-bone-cutting-to-correct-curve-lower-back-one-level