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Procedure price report · Myelogram

Contrast injection into the spine for a myelogram or CT scan

CPT 62284the billing code this page is about

Covers only the needle placement and injection of contrast dye into the spinal canal for imaging, at levels other than the top two neck vertebrae; the imaging itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $673 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,885 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $747. Most fall between $312 and $1,422 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,885
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 1,885 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
$205$365$673$1,276$2,037

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($205 vs $2,037).

How the prices are spread

$145 – $196: 79 hospitals$145$196 – $264: 99 hospitals$264 – $356: 185 hospitals$264$356 – $480: 196 hospitals$480 – $647: 231 hospitals$480$647 – $872: 266 hospitals$872 – $1,175: 191 hospitals$872$1,175 – $1,584: 234 hospitals$1,584 – $2,136: 137 hospitals$1,584$2,136 – $2,880: 80 hospitals$2,136median $673price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,698 of 1,885 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$145$19679
$196$26499
$264$356185
$356$480196
$480$647231
$647$872266
$872$1,175191
$1,175$1,584234
$1,584$2,136137
$2,136$2,88080

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $673.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $179 across 12 hospitalsNH$179Washington: median $620 across 50 hospitalsWA$620Idaho: median $800 across 15 hospitalsID$800Montana: median $307 across 16 hospitalsMT$307North Dakota: median $312 across 10 hospitalsND$312Minnesota: median $522 across 56 hospitalsMN$522Illinois: median $619 across 75 hospitalsIL$619Wisconsin: median $670 across 86 hospitalsWI$670Michigan: median $871 across 62 hospitalsMI$871New York: median $533 across 56 hospitalsNY$533Massachusetts: median $489 across 33 hospitalsMA$489Oregon: median $559 across 36 hospitalsOR$559Nevada: median $700 across 14 hospitalsNV$700Wyoming: median $446 across 10 hospitalsWY$446South Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $660 across 30 hospitalsIA$660Indiana: median $856 across 64 hospitalsIN$856Ohio: median $773 across 112 hospitalsOH$773Pennsylvania: median $1,094 across 67 hospitalsPA$1,094New Jersey: median $1,714 across 41 hospitalsNJ$1,714Connecticut: median $869 across 16 hospitalsCT$869Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,222 across 153 hospitalsCA$1,222Utah: median $893 across 29 hospitalsUT$893Colorado: median $545 across 46 hospitalsCO$545Nebraska: median $722 across 28 hospitalsNE$722Missouri: median $684 across 45 hospitalsMO$684Kentucky: median $838 across 30 hospitalsKY$838West Virginia: median $519 across 15 hospitalsWV$519Virginia: median $421 across 39 hospitalsVA$421Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $393 across 30 hospitalsAZ$393New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $367 across 26 hospitalsKS$367Arkansas: median $500 across 15 hospitalsAR$500Tennessee: median $279 across 41 hospitalsTN$279North Carolina: median $585 across 42 hospitalsNC$585South Carolina: median $757 across 32 hospitalsSC$757Oklahoma: median $370 across 36 hospitalsOK$370Louisiana: median $389 across 33 hospitalsLA$389Mississippi: median $310 across 22 hospitalsMS$310Alabama: median $463 across 16 hospitalsAL$463Georgia: median $869 across 59 hospitalsGA$869Hawaii: median $328 across 10 hospitalsHI$328Texas: median $829 across 144 hospitalsTX$829Florida: median $662 across 86 hospitalsFL$662
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $673. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ41$1,714+155%$300 – $5,110
California CA153$1,222+82%$423 – $2,728
Pennsylvania PA67$1,094+63%$307 – $1,778
Utah UT29$893+33%$740 – $1,051
Michigan MI62$871+29%$503 – $1,569
Connecticut CT16$869+29%$639 – $1,276
Georgia GA59$869+29%$489 – $1,877
Indiana IN64$856+27%$440 – $1,433
Kentucky KY30$838+24%$318 – $3,172
Texas TX144$829+23%$317 – $1,312
Idaho ID15$800+19%$496 – $1,610
Ohio OH112$773+15%$496 – $1,265
South Carolina SC32$757+12%$584 – $1,460
Nebraska NE28$722+7%$384 – $1,596
Nevada NV14$700+4%$255 – $1,461
Missouri MO45$684+2%$452 – $1,826
Wisconsin WI86$670−1%$430 – $860
Florida FL86$662−2%$420 – $1,433
Iowa IA30$660−2%$281 – $1,073
Washington WA50$620−8%$316 – $1,076
Illinois IL75$619−8%$327 – $1,458
North Carolina NC42$585−13%$247 – $1,360
Oregon OR36$559−17%$264 – $1,221
Colorado CO46$545−19%$235 – $899
New York NY56$533−21%$260 – $1,106
Minnesota MN56$522−22%$404 – $1,403
West Virginia WV15$519−23%$218 – $813
Arkansas AR15$500−26%$248 – $618
Massachusetts MA33$489−27%$162 – $1,943
Alabama AL16$463−31%$279 – $672
Wyoming WY10$446−34%$261 – $619
Virginia VA39$421−37%$290 – $1,324
Arizona AZ30$393−42%$293 – $2,167
Louisiana LA33$389−42%$204 – $1,029
Oklahoma OK36$370−45%$137 – $764
Kansas KS26$367−46%$268 – $625
Hawaii HI10$328−51%$205 – $491
North Dakota ND10$312−54%$179 – $708
Mississippi MS22$310−54%$209 – $465
Montana MT16$307−54%$307 – $760
Tennessee TN41$279−59%$233 – $369
New Hampshire NH12$179−73%$97 – $793
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $673.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,539$685$317 – $1,425
Children’s44$999$271 – $1,944
Critical access293$625$274 – $1,255
Ownership
For-profit186$868$303 – $1,801
Government270$504$263 – $1,142
Non-profit1,420$681$324 – $1,425
System affiliation
Part of a system1,578$722$328 – $1,458
Independent307$514$235 – $1,076

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,187
Median cash price$673
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

1,453 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $727 and the average of the middle 60% is $782; most fall between $324 and $1,422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,453 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
$220$375$727$1,283$1,943

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($220 vs $1,943).

Of the 1,578 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,453 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 1 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,885 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,093 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,885
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded131
Hospitals that filed this code2,093

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Myelogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injection Procedure Myelography/CT Lumbar.

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, “Contrast injection into the spine for a myelogram or CT scan (CPT 62284) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62284-contrast-injection-into-the-spine-for-a-myelogram-or-ct-scan