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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Needle decompression of lumbar disc, one or more levels

CPT 62287the billing code this page is about

Removal of part of the center of a lower back disc through a needle or similar device inserted through the skin, including any imaging used; one charge covers single or multiple levels.

Hospitals typically charge $3,787 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 709 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,095. Most fall between $1,871 and $7,733 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
709
States
48
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 709 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
$1,102$2,148$3,787$6,942$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,102 vs $11,934).

How the prices are spread

$910 – $1,223: 45 hospitals$910$1,223 – $1,644: 34 hospitals$1,644 – $2,210: 77 hospitals$1,644$2,210 – $2,971: 96 hospitals$2,971 – $3,993: 84 hospitals$2,971$3,993 – $5,367: 94 hospitals$5,367 – $7,215: 85 hospitals$5,367$7,215 – $9,698: 54 hospitals$9,698 – $13,036: 55 hospitals$9,698$13,036 – $17,522: 15 hospitals$13,036median $3,787price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (639 of 709 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$910$1,22345
$1,223$1,64434
$1,644$2,21077
$2,210$2,97196
$2,971$3,99384
$3,993$5,36794
$5,367$7,21585
$7,215$9,69854
$9,698$13,03655
$13,036$17,52215

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,995
Median cash price$3,787
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.90×

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 $3,787.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,587 across 25 hospitalsWA$3,587Idaho: median $5,383 across 10 hospitalsID$5,383Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,474 across 29 hospitalsIL$3,474Wisconsin: median $3,500 across 19 hospitalsWI$3,500Michigan: median $2,148 across 27 hospitalsMI$2,148New York: median $2,311 across 30 hospitalsNY$2,311Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,456 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,456Indiana: median $3,202 across 24 hospitalsIN$3,202Ohio: median $4,479 across 67 hospitalsOH$4,479Pennsylvania: median $3,301 across 20 hospitalsPA$3,301New Jersey: median $4,627 across 40 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,181 across 54 hospitalsCA$7,181Utah: median $4,653 across 22 hospitalsUT$4,653Colorado: median $2,925 across 18 hospitalsCO$2,925Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $4,956 across 17 hospitalsMO$4,956Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,494 across 11 hospitalsWV$2,494Virginia: 7 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 $22,780 across 14 hospitalsAZ$22,780New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,633 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,633North Carolina: median $3,061 across 15 hospitalsNC$3,061South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $993 across 19 hospitalsOK$993Louisiana: median $2,354 across 15 hospitalsLA$2,354Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,022 across 15 hospitalsGA$4,022Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,322 across 61 hospitalsTX$5,322Florida: median $3,881 across 38 hospitalsFL$3,881
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,787. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ14$22,780+502%$2,233 – $22,780
California CA54$7,181+90%$5,370 – $11,934
Idaho ID10$5,383+42%$2,594 – $5,383
Texas TX61$5,322+41%$3,211 – $5,553
Missouri MO17$4,956+31%$2,380 – $5,746
Utah UT22$4,653+23%$4,653 – $5,170
New Jersey NJ40$4,627+22%$2,161 – $12,257
Ohio OH67$4,479+18%$2,238 – $9,476
Georgia GA15$4,022+6%$3,606 – $4,022
Florida FL38$3,881+3%$2,222 – $14,798
Washington WA25$3,587−5%$2,100 – $7,957
Wisconsin WI19$3,500−8%$3,500 – $7,242
Illinois IL29$3,474−8%$990 – $8,854
Pennsylvania PA20$3,301−13%$1,921 – $4,615
Indiana IN24$3,202−15%$2,093 – $5,644
North Carolina NC15$3,061−19%$1,102 – $4,435
Colorado CO18$2,925−23%$2,785 – $7,733
West Virginia WV11$2,494−34%$1,871 – $4,983
Louisiana LA15$2,354−38%$998 – $3,285
New York NY30$2,311−39%$1,734 – $7,650
Michigan MI27$2,148−43%$2,148 – $3,765
Tennessee TN12$1,633−57%$486 – $1,633
Iowa IA18$1,456−62%$1,456 – $1,990
Oklahoma OK19$993−74%$993 – $5,634
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,787.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care623$3,863$1,936 – $7,957
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access71$3,262$1,735 – $5,383
Ownership
For-profit82$3,863$2,012 – $14,798
Government84$2,311$1,078 – $4,451
Non-profit538$4,022$2,093 – $7,841
System affiliation
Part of a system618$3,881$2,032 – $7,733
Independent91$2,708$1,062 – $7,140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,962
Median cash price$3,787
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

511 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,653 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,782; most fall between $2,006 and $8,896.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 511 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
$1,275$2,233$4,653$7,733$12,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,275 vs $12,274).

Of the 543 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 511 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

709 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 759 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted709
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code759

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 Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dcmprn Px Perq Nucleus Pulposus 1/Mlt Lvl 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, “Needle decompression of lumbar disc, one or more levels (CPT 62287) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62287-needle-decompression-of-lumbar-disc-one-or-more-levels