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Procedure price report · Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal

Nerve-destroying injection into neck or mid-back epidural

CPT 62281the billing code this page is about

Injection of a substance that destroys nerve tissue into the epidural space at the neck or mid-back level of the spine.

Hospitals typically charge $1,279 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 543 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,375. Most fall between $531 and $2,627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
543
States
46
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 543 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
$333$605$1,279$2,421$4,575

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($333 vs $4,575).

How the prices are spread

$257 – $348: 35 hospitals$257$348 – $471: 28 hospitals$471 – $638: 53 hospitals$471$638 – $865: 47 hospitals$865 – $1,171: 65 hospitals$865$1,171 – $1,586: 74 hospitals$1,586 – $2,149: 59 hospitals$1,586$2,149 – $2,910: 61 hospitals$2,910 – $3,942: 28 hospitals$2,910$3,942 – $5,339: 40 hospitals$3,942median $1,279price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (490 of 543 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$257$34835
$348$47128
$471$63853
$638$86547
$865$1,17165
$1,171$1,58674
$1,586$2,14959
$2,149$2,91061
$2,910$3,94228
$3,942$5,33940

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,279
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $1,279.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $449 across 22 hospitalsIL$449Wisconsin: median $1,885 across 22 hospitalsWI$1,885Michigan: median $1,216 across 15 hospitalsMI$1,216New York: median $1,054 across 33 hospitalsNY$1,054Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $594 across 17 hospitalsIA$594Indiana: median $483 across 21 hospitalsIN$483Ohio: median $2,297 across 20 hospitalsOH$2,297Pennsylvania: median $904 across 10 hospitalsPA$904New Jersey: median $2,786 across 31 hospitalsNJ$2,786Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,575 across 58 hospitalsCA$4,575Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,997 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,997Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,337 across 12 hospitalsVA$1,337Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $483 across 13 hospitalsAZ$483New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 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 $2,627 across 16 hospitalsNC$2,627South Carolina: median $1,679 across 13 hospitalsSC$1,679Oklahoma: median $257 across 17 hospitalsOK$257Louisiana: median $767 across 11 hospitalsLA$767Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,421 across 11 hospitalsGA$2,421Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,304 across 51 hospitalsTX$1,304Florida: median $1,901 across 19 hospitalsFL$1,901
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,279. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA58$4,575+258%$2,054 – $5,530
New Jersey NJ31$2,786+118%$985 – $5,339
North Carolina NC16$2,627+105%$1,163 – $2,627
Georgia GA11$2,421+89%$2,421 – $2,421
Ohio OH20$2,297+80%$702 – $4,540
Missouri MO13$1,997+56%$572 – $3,288
Florida FL19$1,901+49%$1,071 – $3,358
Wisconsin WI22$1,885+47%$800 – $1,885
South Carolina SC13$1,679+31%$1,368 – $2,410
Virginia VA12$1,337+5%$1,337 – $1,478
Texas TX51$1,304+2%$920 – $1,381
Michigan MI15$1,216−5%$315 – $1,885
New York NY33$1,054−18%$597 – $2,717
Pennsylvania PA10$904−29%$605 – $1,278
Louisiana LA11$767−40%$418 – $1,157
Iowa IA17$594−54%$594 – $594
Indiana IN21$483−62%$274 – $688
Arizona AZ13$483−62%$388 – $655
Illinois IL22$449−65%$274 – $1,395
Oklahoma OK17$257−80%$257 – $608
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,279.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care457$1,304$556 – $2,846
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$800$437 – $1,892
Ownership
For-profit53$1,304$524 – $2,430
Government82$1,054$493 – $2,627
Non-profit407$1,304$556 – $2,827
System affiliation
Part of a system454$1,304$594 – $2,827
Independent89$989$357 – $1,954

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,302
Median cash price$1,279
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

374 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,381 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,517; most fall between $492 and $2,768.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 374 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
$274$594$1,381$2,516$4,575

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($274 vs $4,575).

Of the 409 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 374 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

543 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 593 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted543
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code593

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 Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injx/Infus Neurolyt Subst Epidural Cerv/Thoracic.

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, “Nerve-destroying injection into neck or mid-back epidural (CPT 62281) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62281-nerve-destroying-injection-into-neck-or-mid-back-epidural