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

Nerve-destroying injection into lower back epidural

CPT 62282the billing code this page is about

Injection of a substance that destroys nerve tissue into the epidural space at the lower back or tailbone level of the spine.

Hospitals typically charge $1,339 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 732 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,441. Most fall between $624 and $2,526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
732
States
49
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 732 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
$354$758$1,339$2,296$4,037

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($354 vs $4,037).

How the prices are spread

$257 – $347: 26 hospitals$257$347 – $469: 42 hospitals$469 – $634: 47 hospitals$469$634 – $856: 68 hospitals$856 – $1,155: 97 hospitals$856$1,155 – $1,560: 90 hospitals$1,560 – $2,107: 128 hospitals$1,560$2,107 – $2,845: 71 hospitals$2,845 – $3,842: 37 hospitals$2,845$3,842 – $5,189: 55 hospitals$3,842median $1,339price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (661 of 732 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$257$34726
$347$46942
$469$63447
$634$85668
$856$1,15597
$1,155$1,56090
$1,560$2,107128
$2,107$2,84571
$2,845$3,84237
$3,842$5,18955

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,339
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.48×

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 $1,339.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,286 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,286Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $374 across 11 hospitalsMN$374Illinois: median $1,261 across 39 hospitalsIL$1,261Wisconsin: median $1,339 across 28 hospitalsWI$1,339Michigan: median $1,143 across 39 hospitalsMI$1,143New York: median $1,054 across 37 hospitalsNY$1,054Massachusetts: median $1,647 across 11 hospitalsMA$1,647Oregon: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $758 across 18 hospitalsIA$758Indiana: median $526 across 22 hospitalsIN$526Ohio: median $2,234 across 50 hospitalsOH$2,234Pennsylvania: median $1,278 across 11 hospitalsPA$1,278New Jersey: median $1,119 across 36 hospitalsNJ$1,119Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,524 across 67 hospitalsCA$3,524Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,547 across 19 hospitalsCO$1,547Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,379 across 17 hospitalsMO$2,379Kentucky: median $1,874 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,874West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $519 across 14 hospitalsAZ$519New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $433 across 11 hospitalsNC$433South Carolina: median $1,368 across 10 hospitalsSC$1,368Oklahoma: median $787 across 21 hospitalsOK$787Louisiana: median $511 across 14 hospitalsLA$511Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,028 across 21 hospitalsGA$2,028Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,565 across 55 hospitalsTX$1,565Florida: median $1,901 across 32 hospitalsFL$1,901
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,339. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA67$3,524+163%$1,479 – $4,575
Missouri MO17$2,379+78%$661 – $3,086
Ohio OH50$2,234+67%$1,576 – $3,993
Georgia GA21$2,028+51%$2,028 – $2,383
Florida FL32$1,901+42%$1,736 – $2,957
Kentucky KY10$1,874+40%$1,137 – $3,575
Massachusetts MA11$1,647+23%$1,207 – $4,037
Texas TX55$1,565+17%$840 – $1,674
Colorado CO19$1,547+16%$300 – $1,954
South Carolina SC10$1,368+2%$741 – $1,469
Wisconsin WI28$1,3390%$714 – $1,478
Washington WA22$1,286−4%$915 – $2,526
Pennsylvania PA11$1,278−5%$904 – $2,487
Illinois IL39$1,261−6%$454 – $5,803
Michigan MI39$1,143−15%$354 – $1,928
New Jersey NJ36$1,119−16%$985 – $4,881
New York NY37$1,054−21%$798 – $2,088
Oklahoma OK21$787−41%$235 – $1,763
Iowa IA18$758−43%$597 – $1,080
Indiana IN22$526−61%$456 – $828
Arizona AZ14$519−61%$304 – $1,085
Louisiana LA14$511−62%$309 – $1,344
North Carolina NC11$433−68%$433 – $1,441
Minnesota MN11$374−72%$374 – $814
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,339.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care602$1,427$630 – $2,713
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access106$1,212$577 – $1,900
Ownership
For-profit81$1,441$787 – $2,448
Government91$1,060$600 – $2,226
Non-profit555$1,368$605 – $2,610
System affiliation
Part of a system621$1,449$666 – $2,625
Independent111$1,073$493 – $1,954

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,274
Median cash price$1,339
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

495 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,571 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,574; most fall between $597 and $2,526.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 495 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
$328$758$1,571$2,383$3,993

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($328 vs $3,993).

Of the 541 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 495 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

732 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 796 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted732
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code796

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 Sbst Epidural Lumbar/Sacral.

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 lower back epidural (CPT 62282) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62282-nerve-destroying-injection-into-lower-back-epidural