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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Dye injection into lumbar disc for imaging, each level

CPT 62290the billing code this page is about

Injection of contrast dye into a lower back spinal disc so it can be x-rayed; billed once for each disc level injected.

Hospitals typically charge $894 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,355 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,003. Most fall between $390 and $2,056 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,355
States
50
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 1,355 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
$283$455$894$1,786$3,343

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($283 vs $3,343).

How the prices are spread

$200 – $272: 57 hospitals$200$272 – $370: 115 hospitals$370 – $504: 154 hospitals$370$504 – $686: 140 hospitals$686 – $934: 163 hospitals$686$934 – $1,271: 177 hospitals$1,271 – $1,730: 119 hospitals$1,271$1,730 – $2,355: 147 hospitals$2,355 – $3,206: 59 hospitals$2,355$3,206 – $4,364: 90 hospitals$3,206median $894price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,221 of 1,355 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$200$27257
$272$370115
$370$504154
$504$686140
$686$934163
$934$1,271177
$1,271$1,730119
$1,730$2,355147
$2,355$3,20659
$3,206$4,36490

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $894.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $796 across 34 hospitalsWA$796Idaho: median $3,414 across 12 hospitalsID$3,414Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $431 across 20 hospitalsMN$431Illinois: median $1,098 across 61 hospitalsIL$1,098Wisconsin: median $1,230 across 54 hospitalsWI$1,230Michigan: median $1,359 across 53 hospitalsMI$1,359New York: median $608 across 32 hospitalsNY$608Massachusetts: median $517 across 22 hospitalsMA$517Oregon: median $615 across 14 hospitalsOR$615Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $896 across 23 hospitalsIA$896Indiana: median $552 across 41 hospitalsIN$552Ohio: median $1,320 across 101 hospitalsOH$1,320Pennsylvania: median $1,902 across 42 hospitalsPA$1,902New Jersey: median $4,350 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $991 across 107 hospitalsCA$991Utah: median $3,514 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,514Colorado: median $849 across 35 hospitalsCO$849Nebraska: median $485 across 20 hospitalsNE$485Missouri: median $1,218 across 27 hospitalsMO$1,218Kentucky: median $982 across 14 hospitalsKY$982West Virginia: median $445 across 19 hospitalsWV$445Virginia: median $616 across 32 hospitalsVA$616Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $662 across 27 hospitalsAZ$662New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $332 across 17 hospitalsKS$332Arkansas: median $316 across 12 hospitalsAR$316Tennessee: median $298 across 20 hospitalsTN$298North Carolina: median $1,107 across 38 hospitalsNC$1,107South Carolina: median $1,203 across 25 hospitalsSC$1,203Oklahoma: median $381 across 26 hospitalsOK$381Louisiana: median $486 across 25 hospitalsLA$486Mississippi: median $537 across 15 hospitalsMS$537Alabama: median $599 across 16 hospitalsAL$599Georgia: median $594 across 57 hospitalsGA$594Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,026 across 118 hospitalsTX$1,026Florida: median $755 across 64 hospitalsFL$755
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $894. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ28$4,350+386%$120 – $6,095
Utah UT23$3,514+293%$3,514 – $4,134
Idaho ID12$3,414+282%$750 – $6,753
Pennsylvania PA42$1,902+113%$442 – $3,214
Michigan MI53$1,359+52%$441 – $1,917
Ohio OH101$1,320+48%$609 – $2,802
Wisconsin WI54$1,230+38%$289 – $1,761
Missouri MO27$1,218+36%$570 – $2,938
South Carolina SC25$1,203+34%$671 – $1,850
North Carolina NC38$1,107+24%$651 – $1,622
Illinois IL61$1,098+23%$505 – $2,055
Texas TX118$1,026+15%$536 – $2,016
California CA107$991+11%$428 – $2,153
Kentucky KY14$982+10%$330 – $2,938
Iowa IA23$8960%$454 – $1,473
Colorado CO35$849−5%$398 – $2,277
Washington WA34$796−11%$534 – $1,364
Florida FL64$755−16%$501 – $2,137
Arizona AZ27$662−26%$291 – $1,757
Virginia VA32$616−31%$370 – $2,679
Oregon OR14$615−31%$479 – $868
New York NY32$608−32%$320 – $1,004
Alabama AL16$599−33%$450 – $1,304
Georgia GA57$594−34%$458 – $959
Indiana IN41$552−38%$374 – $1,171
Mississippi MS15$537−40%$239 – $762
Massachusetts MA22$517−42%$274 – $1,007
Louisiana LA25$486−46%$280 – $1,243
Nebraska NE20$485−46%$323 – $1,064
West Virginia WV19$445−50%$163 – $1,141
Minnesota MN20$431−52%$416 – $1,981
Oklahoma OK26$381−57%$258 – $1,334
Kansas KS17$332−63%$313 – $482
Arkansas AR12$316−65%$151 – $771
Tennessee TN20$298−67%$144 – $735
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $894.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,153$912$401 – $2,055
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access176$840$370 – $1,981
Ownership
For-profit141$972$419 – $3,010
Government188$671$353 – $1,411
Non-profit1,019$938$391 – $2,153
System affiliation
Part of a system1,166$923$416 – $2,074
Independent189$709$307 – $1,820

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,667
Median cash price$894
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

1,061 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $971 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,090; most fall between $422 and $2,153.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,061 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
$291$501$971$1,902$3,233

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($291 vs $3,233).

Of the 1,155 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,061 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,355 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,528 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,355
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
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 — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code1,528

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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injection Px Discography Each Level 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, “Dye injection into lumbar disc for imaging, each level (CPT 62290) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62290-dye-injection-into-lumbar-disc-for-imaging-each-level