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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Balloon kyphoplasty of one lower back vertebra

CPT 22514the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a broken vertebra in the lower spine in which a cavity is created inside the bone, usually with a balloon, and filled with cement; billed per vertebra treated.

Hospitals typically charge $9,388 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,866 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $9,691. Most fall between $4,813 and $16,239 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,866
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,866 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
$2,749$5,599$9,388$14,726$21,878

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,749 vs $21,878).

How the prices are spread

$1,123 – $1,544: 26 hospitals$1,123$1,544 – $2,124: 19 hospitals$2,124 – $2,920: 59 hospitals$2,124$2,920 – $4,015: 87 hospitals$4,015 – $5,522: 176 hospitals$4,015$5,522 – $7,592: 266 hospitals$7,592 – $10,440: 337 hospitals$7,592$10,440 – $14,356: 294 hospitals$14,356 – $19,740: 273 hospitals$14,356$19,740 – $27,143: 143 hospitals$19,740median $9,388price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,680 of 1,866 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,123$1,54426
$1,544$2,12419
$2,124$2,92059
$2,920$4,01587
$4,015$5,522176
$5,522$7,592266
$7,592$10,440337
$10,440$14,356294
$14,356$19,740273
$19,740$27,143143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$9,388
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $9,388.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $7,159 across 10 hospitalsME$7,159Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $848 across 10 hospitalsNH$848Washington: median $9,480 across 40 hospitalsWA$9,480Idaho: median $12,106 across 19 hospitalsID$12,106Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $7,590 across 46 hospitalsMN$7,590Illinois: median $9,320 across 81 hospitalsIL$9,320Wisconsin: median $7,138 across 64 hospitalsWI$7,138Michigan: median $9,464 across 68 hospitalsMI$9,464New York: median $10,327 across 78 hospitalsNY$10,327Massachusetts: median $11,454 across 35 hospitalsMA$11,454Oregon: median $12,211 across 29 hospitalsOR$12,211Nevada: median $7,892 across 11 hospitalsNV$7,892Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $13,134 across 10 hospitalsSD$13,134Iowa: median $12,934 across 35 hospitalsIA$12,934Indiana: median $7,796 across 57 hospitalsIN$7,796Ohio: median $10,725 across 110 hospitalsOH$10,725Pennsylvania: median $10,656 across 76 hospitalsPA$10,656New Jersey: median $7,914 across 52 hospitalsNJ$7,914Connecticut: median $12,128 across 15 hospitalsCT$12,128Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $10,954 across 137 hospitalsCA$10,954Utah: median $14,676 across 27 hospitalsUT$14,676Colorado: median $6,812 across 35 hospitalsCO$6,812Nebraska: median $7,197 across 32 hospitalsNE$7,197Missouri: median $8,183 across 49 hospitalsMO$8,183Kentucky: median $11,157 across 26 hospitalsKY$11,157West Virginia: median $5,055 across 21 hospitalsWV$5,055Virginia: median $8,861 across 39 hospitalsVA$8,861Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,184 across 31 hospitalsAZ$5,184New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $6,836 across 25 hospitalsKS$6,836Arkansas: median $3,527 across 13 hospitalsAR$3,527Tennessee: median $3,795 across 33 hospitalsTN$3,795North Carolina: median $6,479 across 46 hospitalsNC$6,479South Carolina: median $14,116 across 34 hospitalsSC$14,116Oklahoma: median $6,194 across 34 hospitalsOK$6,194Louisiana: median $8,080 across 25 hospitalsLA$8,080Mississippi: median $4,813 across 32 hospitalsMS$4,813Alabama: median $10,852 across 23 hospitalsAL$10,852Georgia: median $8,157 across 63 hospitalsGA$8,157Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $10,431 across 144 hospitalsTX$10,431Florida: median $15,527 across 87 hospitalsFL$15,527
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $9,388. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL87$15,527+65%$6,661 – $25,154
Utah UT27$14,676+56%$11,510 – $17,266
South Carolina SC34$14,116+50%$6,960 – $18,767
South Dakota SD10$13,134+40%$7,601 – $15,882
Iowa IA35$12,934+38%$5,617 – $15,000
Oregon OR29$12,211+30%$1,423 – $19,562
Connecticut CT15$12,128+29%$7,770 – $25,754
Idaho ID19$12,106+29%$4,248 – $16,239
Massachusetts MA35$11,454+22%$6,671 – $28,699
Kentucky KY26$11,157+19%$6,371 – $52,808
California CA137$10,954+17%$6,206 – $19,712
Alabama AL23$10,852+16%$5,871 – $13,353
Ohio OH110$10,725+14%$6,584 – $18,396
Pennsylvania PA76$10,656+14%$5,050 – $18,635
Texas TX144$10,431+11%$5,665 – $22,887
New York NY78$10,327+10%$5,987 – $15,455
Washington WA40$9,480+1%$4,820 – $15,258
Michigan MI68$9,464+1%$727 – $15,641
Illinois IL81$9,320−1%$5,413 – $16,299
Virginia VA39$8,861−6%$7,972 – $11,780
Missouri MO49$8,183−13%$5,072 – $12,482
Georgia GA63$8,157−13%$5,970 – $12,857
Louisiana LA25$8,080−14%$3,777 – $11,806
New Jersey NJ52$7,914−16%$4,881 – $9,547
Nevada NV11$7,892−16%$3,869 – $22,785
Indiana IN57$7,796−17%$3,504 – $15,658
Minnesota MN46$7,590−19%$4,469 – $10,750
Nebraska NE32$7,197−23%$4,714 – $10,613
Maine ME10$7,159−24%$609 – $15,472
Wisconsin WI64$7,138−24%$4,090 – $10,944
Kansas KS25$6,836−27%$867 – $10,716
Colorado CO35$6,812−27%$6,052 – $16,805
North Carolina NC46$6,479−31%$3,600 – $10,479
Oklahoma OK34$6,194−34%$3,213 – $14,565
Arizona AZ31$5,184−45%$2,464 – $23,524
West Virginia WV21$5,055−46%$4,249 – $5,801
Mississippi MS32$4,813−49%$2,618 – $5,600
Tennessee TN33$3,795−60%$2,632 – $9,072
Arkansas AR13$3,527−62%$3,080 – $5,826
New Hampshire NH10$848−91%$503 – $10,754
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $9,388.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,609$9,553$5,326 – $16,789
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access234$7,138$2,162 – $14,648
Ownership
For-profit208$10,472$5,948 – $22,959
Government259$7,560$3,504 – $13,054
Non-profit1,390$9,532$4,834 – $16,062
System affiliation
Part of a system1,597$9,490$5,110 – $16,299
Independent269$8,848$2,855 – $15,799

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$16,560
Median cash price$9,388
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,360 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $10,203 and the average of the middle 60% is $10,312; most fall between $5,379 and $16,679.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,360 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
$3,503$5,970$10,203$15,494$21,717

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($3,503 vs $21,717).

Of the 1,464 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,360 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,866 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,025 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,866
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,025

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Other fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Perq Vert Agmntj Cavity Crtj Uni/Bi Cannulj Lmbr.

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, “Balloon kyphoplasty of one lower back vertebra (CPT 22514) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-22514-balloon-kyphoplasty-of-one-lower-back-vertebra