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Epidural blood patch injection

CPT 62273the billing code this page is about

The patient's own blood is injected into the epidural space of the spine to seal a leak of spinal fluid.

Hospitals typically charge $949 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,645 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,004. Most fall between $466 and $1,787 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,645
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,645 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
$292$557$949$1,561$2,584

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($292 vs $2,584).

How the prices are spread

$218 – $287: 127 hospitals$218$287 – $378: 148 hospitals$378 – $497: 179 hospitals$378$497 – $655: 212 hospitals$655 – $863: 400 hospitals$655$863 – $1,136: 378 hospitals$1,136 – $1,496: 353 hospitals$1,136$1,496 – $1,970: 294 hospitals$1,970 – $2,594: 168 hospitals$1,970$2,594 – $3,415: 125 hospitals$2,594median $949price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,384 of 2,645 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$218$287127
$287$378148
$378$497179
$497$655212
$655$863400
$863$1,136378
$1,136$1,496353
$1,496$1,970294
$1,970$2,594168
$2,594$3,415125

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$949
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.32×

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 $949.

Alaska: median $973 across 14 hospitalsAK$973Maine: median $696 across 20 hospitalsME$696Vermont: median $419 across 10 hospitalsVT$419New Hampshire: median $704 across 17 hospitalsNH$704Washington: median $1,073 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,073Idaho: median $1,409 across 23 hospitalsID$1,409Montana: median $658 across 18 hospitalsMT$658North Dakota: median $712 across 11 hospitalsND$712Minnesota: median $761 across 88 hospitalsMN$761Illinois: median $995 across 106 hospitalsIL$995Wisconsin: median $928 across 96 hospitalsWI$928Michigan: median $883 across 83 hospitalsMI$883New York: median $881 across 80 hospitalsNY$881Massachusetts: median $1,347 across 47 hospitalsMA$1,347Oregon: median $587 across 44 hospitalsOR$587Nevada: median $767 across 14 hospitalsNV$767Wyoming: median $404 across 13 hospitalsWY$404South Dakota: median $914 across 17 hospitalsSD$914Iowa: median $695 across 76 hospitalsIA$695Indiana: median $758 across 72 hospitalsIN$758Ohio: median $1,526 across 130 hospitalsOH$1,526Pennsylvania: median $1,181 across 104 hospitalsPA$1,181New Jersey: median $924 across 51 hospitalsNJ$924Connecticut: median $1,383 across 19 hospitalsCT$1,383Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,652 across 186 hospitalsCA$1,652Utah: median $1,409 across 31 hospitalsUT$1,409Colorado: median $849 across 58 hospitalsCO$849Nebraska: median $671 across 55 hospitalsNE$671Missouri: median $794 across 67 hospitalsMO$794Kentucky: median $1,042 across 36 hospitalsKY$1,042West Virginia: median $812 across 30 hospitalsWV$812Virginia: median $856 across 57 hospitalsVA$856Maryland: median $1,384 across 13 hospitalsMD$1,384Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $468 across 38 hospitalsAZ$468New Mexico: median $696 across 20 hospitalsNM$696Kansas: median $589 across 65 hospitalsKS$589Arkansas: median $557 across 26 hospitalsAR$557Tennessee: median $550 across 60 hospitalsTN$550North Carolina: median $874 across 73 hospitalsNC$874South Carolina: median $1,094 across 40 hospitalsSC$1,094Oklahoma: median $537 across 53 hospitalsOK$537Louisiana: median $626 across 47 hospitalsLA$626Mississippi: median $551 across 47 hospitalsMS$551Alabama: median $936 across 40 hospitalsAL$936Georgia: median $1,247 across 83 hospitalsGA$1,247Hawaii: median $958 across 12 hospitalsHI$958Texas: median $1,436 across 188 hospitalsTX$1,436Florida: median $1,319 across 90 hospitalsFL$1,319
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $949. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA186$1,652+74%$769 – $3,551
Ohio OH130$1,526+61%$664 – $2,756
Texas TX188$1,436+51%$770 – $2,096
Idaho ID23$1,409+49%$549 – $1,886
Utah UT31$1,409+49%$1,090 – $1,657
Maryland MD13$1,384+46%$650 – $1,787
Connecticut CT19$1,383+46%$703 – $2,237
Massachusetts MA47$1,347+42%$484 – $1,904
Florida FL90$1,319+39%$590 – $2,424
Georgia GA83$1,247+31%$813 – $2,139
Pennsylvania PA104$1,181+24%$721 – $2,046
South Carolina SC40$1,094+15%$696 – $1,256
Washington WA63$1,073+13%$394 – $1,661
Kentucky KY36$1,042+10%$655 – $1,718
Illinois IL106$995+5%$516 – $2,091
Alaska AK14$973+3%$537 – $2,535
Hawaii HI12$958+1%$893 – $2,238
Alabama AL40$936−1%$469 – $1,523
Wisconsin WI96$928−2%$565 – $1,307
New Jersey NJ51$924−3%$767 – $4,649
South Dakota SD17$914−4%$785 – $1,743
Michigan MI83$883−7%$585 – $1,328
New York NY80$881−7%$381 – $1,902
North Carolina NC73$874−8%$488 – $1,202
Virginia VA57$856−10%$608 – $1,139
Colorado CO58$849−10%$420 – $1,564
West Virginia WV30$812−14%$513 – $1,082
Missouri MO67$794−16%$480 – $1,530
Nevada NV14$767−19%$481 – $2,612
Minnesota MN88$761−20%$434 – $1,276
Indiana IN72$758−20%$196 – $1,466
North Dakota ND11$712−25%$253 – $1,295
New Hampshire NH17$704−26%$199 – $912
Maine ME20$696−27%$353 – $960
New Mexico NM20$696−27%$490 – $1,795
Iowa IA76$695−27%$323 – $1,434
Nebraska NE55$671−29%$307 – $1,192
Montana MT18$658−31%$177 – $934
Louisiana LA47$626−34%$272 – $1,128
Kansas KS65$589−38%$292 – $1,073
Oregon OR44$587−38%$305 – $1,401
Arkansas AR26$557−41%$329 – $895
Mississippi MS47$551−42%$266 – $1,226
Tennessee TN60$550−42%$346 – $1,043
Oklahoma OK53$537−43%$240 – $1,369
Arizona AZ38$468−51%$309 – $5,000
Vermont VT10$419−56%$201 – $944
Wyoming WY13$404−57%$318 – $861
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $949.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,996$1,021$527 – $1,869
Children’s49$1,220$541 – $2,418
Critical access592$685$301 – $1,379
Ownership
For-profit297$1,049$642 – $2,273
Government464$733$353 – $1,356
Non-profit1,876$990$480 – $1,790
System affiliation
Part of a system2,151$1,000$496 – $1,825
Independent494$784$332 – $1,564

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,745
Median cash price$949
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

1,985 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,046 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,094; most fall between $506 and $1,858.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,985 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
$327$637$1,046$1,676$2,612

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($327 vs $2,612).

Of the 2,144 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,985 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,645 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,853 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,645
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here97
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code2,853

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 non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Inj,Lumb Epidur,Blood/Clot Patch.

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, “Epidural blood patch injection (CPT 62273) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62273-epidural-blood-patch-injection