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Procedure price report · Spinal fusion

Spine fusion from the back for curvature, up to 6 segments

CPT 22800the billing code this page is about

Fusion of the spine through an incision in the back to correct a curve or other deformity, covering up to six vertebral segments in one operation.

Hospitals typically charge $4,177 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 210 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,448. Most fall between $2,248 and $8,999 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
210
States
40
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 210 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
$1,383$2,341$4,177$7,292$17,914

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,383 vs $17,914).

How the prices are spread

$1,006 – $1,374: 10 hospitals$1,006$1,374 – $1,877: 7 hospitals$1,877 – $2,564: 36 hospitals$1,877$2,564 – $3,502: 29 hospitals$3,502 – $4,783: 21 hospitals$3,502$4,783 – $6,533: 28 hospitals$6,533 – $8,924: 26 hospitals$6,533$8,924 – $12,189: 9 hospitals$12,189 – $16,649: 10 hospitals$12,189$16,649 – $22,741: 15 hospitals$16,649median $4,177price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (191 of 210 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,006$1,37410
$1,374$1,8777
$1,877$2,56436
$2,564$3,50229
$3,502$4,78321
$4,783$6,53328
$6,533$8,92426
$8,924$12,1899
$12,189$16,64910
$16,649$22,74115

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$17,914
Median cash price$4,177
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.23×

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 $4,177.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $4,961 across 16 hospitalsMN$4,961Illinois: median $2,536 across 10 hospitalsIL$2,536Wisconsin: median $7,292 across 20 hospitalsWI$7,292Michigan: median $3,850 across 15 hospitalsMI$3,850New York: median $17,914 across 16 hospitalsNY$17,914Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $3,298 across 14 hospitalsIA$3,298Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $5,195 across 11 hospitalsOH$5,195Pennsylvania: median $1,006 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,006New Jersey: median $5,339 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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 $2,248 across 12 hospitalsOK$2,248Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,177. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY16$17,914+329%$4,177 – $20,812
Wisconsin WI20$7,292+75%$6,563 – $7,292
New Jersey NJ14$5,339+28%$4,350 – $6,839
Ohio OH11$5,195+24%$3,018 – $5,577
Minnesota MN16$4,961+19%$3,398 – $5,820
Michigan MI15$3,850−8%$2,317 – $24,110
Iowa IA14$3,298−21%$3,298 – $3,298
Illinois IL10$2,536−39%$1,062 – $3,204
Oklahoma OK12$2,248−46%$2,248 – $2,248
Pennsylvania PA16$1,006−76%$851 – $13,844
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $4,177.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care164$3,986$2,248 – $11,584
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$5,820$2,471 – $7,292
Ownership
For-profit22$7,292$1,062 – $22,741
Government24$3,398$2,357 – $15,862
Non-profit163$4,285$2,248 – $7,292
System affiliation
Part of a system167$4,833$2,248 – $9,325
Independent43$3,526$2,243 – $8,999

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,578
Median cash price$4,177
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.

The same procedure, inpatient

127 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,865 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,807; most fall between $1,870 and $7,292.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 127 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
$1,222$2,078$2,865$7,032$11,100

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,222 vs $11,100).

Of the 154 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 127 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

210 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 256 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted210
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code256

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 Spinal fusion family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrodesis Posterior Spinal Dfrm <6 Vrt Sgm.

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, “Spine fusion from the back for curvature, up to 6 segments (CPT 22800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-22800-spine-fusion-from-the-back-for-curvature-up-to-6-segments