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Needle biopsy of the spinal cord

CPT 62269the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed through the skin to take a tissue sample from the spinal cord for laboratory examination.

Hospitals typically charge $1,680 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 550 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,654. Most fall between $736 and $3,038 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
550
States
49
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 550 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
$491$877$1,680$2,761$4,454

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $4,454).

How the prices are spread

$419 – $545: 38 hospitals$419$545 – $708: 37 hospitals$708 – $919: 47 hospitals$708$919 – $1,194: 55 hospitals$1,194 – $1,552: 49 hospitals$1,194$1,552 – $2,016: 92 hospitals$2,016 – $2,619: 58 hospitals$2,016$2,619 – $3,402: 53 hospitals$3,402 – $4,419: 35 hospitals$3,402$4,419 – $5,741: 32 hospitals$4,419median $1,680price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (496 of 550 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$419$54538
$545$70837
$708$91947
$919$1,19455
$1,194$1,55249
$1,552$2,01692
$2,016$2,61958
$2,619$3,40253
$3,402$4,41935
$4,419$5,74132

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,680
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $1,680.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals 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: median $2,279 across 26 hospitalsWA$2,279Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $753 across 24 hospitalsIL$753Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,097 across 15 hospitalsMI$2,097New York: median $1,917 across 37 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $678 across 16 hospitalsIA$678Indiana: median $531 across 18 hospitalsIN$531Ohio: median $7,267 across 20 hospitalsOH$7,267Pennsylvania: median $1,901 across 27 hospitalsPA$1,901New Jersey: median $2,843 across 26 hospitalsNJ$2,843Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,113 across 57 hospitalsCA$2,113Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,680 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,680Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,002 across 19 hospitalsVA$1,002Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $788 across 14 hospitalsAZ$788New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $927 across 11 hospitalsNC$927South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $544 across 21 hospitalsOK$544Louisiana: median $893 across 15 hospitalsLA$893Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $736 across 30 hospitalsGA$736Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,092 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,092Florida: median $3,400 across 19 hospitalsFL$3,400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,680. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH20$7,267+333%$1,054 – $7,267
Florida FL19$3,400+102%$2,447 – $5,243
New Jersey NJ26$2,843+69%$1,793 – $5,339
Washington WA26$2,279+36%$977 – $2,884
California CA57$2,113+26%$1,680 – $2,761
Michigan MI15$2,097+25%$1,205 – $2,271
Texas TX22$2,092+25%$1,112 – $2,983
New York NY37$1,917+14%$1,064 – $3,038
Pennsylvania PA27$1,901+13%$1,624 – $2,383
Colorado CO17$1,6800%$1,680 – $4,666
Virginia VA19$1,002−40%$1,002 – $1,558
North Carolina NC11$927−45%$927 – $1,042
Louisiana LA15$893−47%$582 – $1,536
Arizona AZ14$788−53%$683 – $1,228
Illinois IL24$753−55%$328 – $2,562
Georgia GA30$736−56%$736 – $3,730
Iowa IA16$678−60%$678 – $981
Oklahoma OK21$544−68%$427 – $1,907
Indiana IN18$531−68%$426 – $762
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,680.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care495$1,680$736 – $3,052
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access40$940$614 – $2,369
Ownership
For-profit52$1,520$736 – $3,730
Government64$1,441$562 – $2,884
Non-profit433$1,680$760 – $3,038
System affiliation
Part of a system473$1,680$736 – $3,053
Independent77$1,544$538 – $2,972

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,823
Median cash price$1,680
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

383 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,680 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,693; most fall between $736 and $3,126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 383 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
$544$778$1,680$2,761$4,454

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($544 vs $4,454).

Of the 415 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 383 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

550 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted550
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code589

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 PR Percut Needle Biopsy Spinal Cord.

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 biopsy of the spinal cord (CPT 62269) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62269-needle-biopsy-of-the-spinal-cord