HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Spinal fusion

Lumbar spine fusion at one level, from the back

CPT 22612the billing code this page is about

Fusion of one disc space level of the lower back through an incision from behind, joining the vertebrae so they grow together. Covers a single level; extra levels are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $6,547 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 587 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $8,822. Most fall between $2,722 and $20,834 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
587
States
49
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 587 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
$1,576$3,285$6,547$17,646$33,543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,576 vs $33,543).

How the prices are spread

$1,009 – $1,507: 28 hospitals$1,009$1,507 – $2,252: 34 hospitals$2,252 – $3,364: 80 hospitals$2,252$3,364 – $5,026: 83 hospitals$5,026 – $7,509: 52 hospitals$5,026$7,509 – $11,218: 60 hospitals$11,218 – $16,761: 43 hospitals$11,218$16,761 – $25,042: 95 hospitals$25,042 – $37,414: 31 hospitals$25,042$37,414 – $55,898: 23 hospitals$37,414median $6,547price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (529 of 587 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,009$1,50728
$1,507$2,25234
$2,252$3,36480
$3,364$5,02683
$5,026$7,50952
$7,509$11,21860
$11,218$16,76143
$16,761$25,04295
$25,042$37,41431
$37,414$55,89823

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$17,914
Median cash price$6,547
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.37×

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 $6,547.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $17,113 across 14 hospitalsID$17,113Montana: 8 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 $6,360 across 26 hospitalsMN$6,360Illinois: median $2,986 across 19 hospitalsIL$2,986Wisconsin: median $8,057 across 31 hospitalsWI$8,057Michigan: median $4,318 across 33 hospitalsMI$4,318New York: median $9,882 across 36 hospitalsNY$9,882Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,012 across 13 hospitalsOR$3,012Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $3,842 across 21 hospitalsIA$3,842Indiana: median $4,451 across 11 hospitalsIN$4,451Ohio: median $6,729 across 28 hospitalsOH$6,729Pennsylvania: median $5,351 across 24 hospitalsPA$5,351New Jersey: median $20,333 across 33 hospitalsNJ$20,333Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $14,331 across 46 hospitalsCA$14,331Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,551 across 13 hospitalsMO$2,551Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $43,001 across 12 hospitalsVA$43,001Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,262 across 10 hospitalsKS$2,262Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $3,315 across 14 hospitalsOK$3,315Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $13,665 across 11 hospitalsAL$13,665Georgia: median $3,629 across 13 hospitalsGA$3,629Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $10,629 across 32 hospitalsTX$10,629Florida: median $18,460 across 11 hospitalsFL$18,460
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,547. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA12$43,001+557%$1,049 – $70,574
New Jersey NJ33$20,333+211%$5,339 – $24,074
Florida FL11$18,460+182%$6,729 – $20,184
Idaho ID14$17,113+161%$5,200 – $23,944
California CA46$14,331+119%$4,545 – $17,646
Alabama AL11$13,665+109%$4,436 – $49,819
Texas TX32$10,629+62%$5,131 – $20,558
New York NY36$9,882+51%$3,362 – $21,762
Wisconsin WI31$8,057+23%$7,573 – $17,438
Ohio OH28$6,729+3%$3,539 – $56,009
Minnesota MN26$6,360−3%$2,668 – $12,788
Pennsylvania PA24$5,351−18%$981 – $34,653
Indiana IN11$4,451−32%$3,308 – $50,441
Michigan MI33$4,318−34%$2,718 – $24,110
Iowa IA21$3,842−41%$3,842 – $8,276
Georgia GA13$3,629−45%$3,629 – $42,000
Oklahoma OK14$3,315−49%$3,315 – $10,986
Oregon OR13$3,012−54%$525 – $5,146
Illinois IL19$2,986−54%$623 – $8,379
Missouri MO13$2,551−61%$2,262 – $17,476
Kansas KS10$2,262−65%$752 – $5,427
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $6,547.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care469$7,791$2,847 – $21,762
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access106$4,791$2,398 – $12,788
Ownership
For-profit70$13,668$3,308 – $36,020
Government83$4,434$2,551 – $21,517
Non-profit432$6,295$2,722 – $17,914
System affiliation
Part of a system450$7,573$2,722 – $21,762
Independent137$4,918$2,646 – $17,904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,951
Median cash price$6,547
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

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

296 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,842 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,567; most fall between $2,199 and $14,331.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 296 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
$1,049$2,628$3,842$10,629$17,904

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,049 vs $17,904).

Of the 335 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 296 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

587 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 654 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted587
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code654

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 Spinal fusion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrodesis Posterior/Pstlat Tq 1ntrspc 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, “Lumbar spine fusion at one level, from the back (CPT 22612) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-22612-lumbar-spine-fusion-at-one-level-from-the-back