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Needle aspiration of spinal disc for diagnosis

CPT 62267the billing code this page is about

Needle sampling of material from the center of a spinal disc or nearby tissue for diagnostic testing, done through the skin.

Hospitals typically charge $1,102 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,616 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,190. Most fall between $607 and $2,192 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,616
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,616 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
$410$704$1,102$1,886$3,298

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($410 vs $3,298).

How the prices are spread

$290 – $381: 62 hospitals$290$381 – $501: 109 hospitals$501 – $660: 124 hospitals$501$660 – $868: 229 hospitals$868 – $1,143: 236 hospitals$868$1,143 – $1,504: 220 hospitals$1,504 – $1,979: 192 hospitals$1,504$1,979 – $2,604: 109 hospitals$2,604 – $3,427: 117 hospitals$2,604$3,427 – $4,510: 66 hospitals$3,427median $1,102price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,464 of 1,616 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$290$38162
$381$501109
$501$660124
$660$868229
$868$1,143236
$1,143$1,504220
$1,504$1,979192
$1,979$2,604109
$2,604$3,427117
$3,427$4,51066

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$1,102
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.52×

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 $1,102.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,170 across 40 hospitalsWA$1,170Idaho: median $1,783 across 15 hospitalsID$1,783Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $884 across 38 hospitalsMN$884Illinois: median $1,172 across 68 hospitalsIL$1,172Wisconsin: median $1,021 across 73 hospitalsWI$1,021Michigan: median $815 across 60 hospitalsMI$815New York: median $884 across 56 hospitalsNY$884Massachusetts: median $1,073 across 28 hospitalsMA$1,073Oregon: median $1,945 across 27 hospitalsOR$1,945Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $662 across 22 hospitalsIA$662Indiana: median $849 across 44 hospitalsIN$849Ohio: median $2,192 across 94 hospitalsOH$2,192Pennsylvania: median $1,187 across 74 hospitalsPA$1,187New Jersey: median $1,744 across 52 hospitalsNJ$1,744Connecticut: median $1,250 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,250Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,547 across 131 hospitalsCA$1,547Utah: median $2,337 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,337Colorado: median $1,102 across 36 hospitalsCO$1,102Nebraska: median $419 across 21 hospitalsNE$419Missouri: median $1,055 across 29 hospitalsMO$1,055Kentucky: median $2,825 across 21 hospitalsKY$2,825West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $971 across 38 hospitalsVA$971Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $869 across 21 hospitalsAZ$869New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $942 across 21 hospitalsKS$942Arkansas: median $501 across 12 hospitalsAR$501Tennessee: median $467 across 37 hospitalsTN$467North Carolina: median $748 across 44 hospitalsNC$748South Carolina: median $1,151 across 34 hospitalsSC$1,151Oklahoma: median $633 across 32 hospitalsOK$633Louisiana: median $458 across 28 hospitalsLA$458Mississippi: median $390 across 23 hospitalsMS$390Alabama: median $1,340 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,340Georgia: median $1,273 across 55 hospitalsGA$1,273Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,213 across 114 hospitalsTX$1,213Florida: median $1,288 across 73 hospitalsFL$1,288
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,102. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY21$2,825+156%$581 – $3,114
Utah UT26$2,337+112%$2,337 – $2,749
Ohio OH94$2,192+99%$823 – $3,156
Oregon OR27$1,945+77%$475 – $2,074
Idaho ID15$1,783+62%$961 – $1,783
New Jersey NJ52$1,744+58%$779 – $4,627
California CA131$1,547+40%$722 – $3,769
Alabama AL19$1,340+22%$480 – $14,348
Florida FL73$1,288+17%$957 – $3,027
Georgia GA55$1,273+16%$982 – $3,241
Connecticut CT15$1,250+13%$921 – $2,320
Texas TX114$1,213+10%$455 – $1,732
Pennsylvania PA74$1,187+8%$825 – $2,792
Illinois IL68$1,172+6%$555 – $1,943
Washington WA40$1,170+6%$460 – $1,565
South Carolina SC34$1,151+4%$853 – $1,557
Colorado CO36$1,1020%$704 – $1,458
Massachusetts MA28$1,073−3%$910 – $2,185
Missouri MO29$1,055−4%$734 – $2,034
Wisconsin WI73$1,021−7%$710 – $1,384
Virginia VA38$971−12%$639 – $1,286
Kansas KS21$942−14%$667 – $1,911
Minnesota MN38$884−20%$731 – $2,022
New York NY56$884−20%$607 – $1,609
Arizona AZ21$869−21%$632 – $10,921
Indiana IN44$849−23%$526 – $2,077
Michigan MI60$815−26%$290 – $1,522
North Carolina NC44$748−32%$532 – $1,034
Iowa IA22$662−40%$350 – $1,584
Oklahoma OK32$633−43%$399 – $1,016
Arkansas AR12$501−55%$440 – $1,124
Tennessee TN37$467−58%$267 – $662
Louisiana LA28$458−58%$268 – $1,146
Nebraska NE21$419−62%$389 – $737
Mississippi MS23$390−65%$278 – $757
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $1,102.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,425$1,118$624 – $2,320
Children’s20$1,033$611 – $2,211
Critical access163$1,021$424 – $1,691
Ownership
For-profit149$1,222$594 – $2,514
Government192$833$481 – $1,557
Non-profit1,267$1,147$627 – $2,337
System affiliation
Part of a system1,426$1,151$627 – $2,337
Independent190$936$510 – $1,655

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,938
Median cash price$1,102
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

1,278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,178 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,238; most fall between $603 and $2,296.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,278 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
$415$704$1,178$1,930$3,241

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($415 vs $3,241).

Of the 1,353 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,278 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,616 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,724 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,616
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,724

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 diagnostic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prq Aspir Pulposus/Intervertebral Disc/Pvrt Tiss.

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, “Needle aspiration of spinal disc for diagnosis (CPT 62267) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62267-needle-aspiration-of-spinal-disc-for-diagnosis