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Procedure price report · Myelogram

Neck spine dye study with lower back injection and imaging

CPT 62302the billing code this page is about

Contrast is injected through a needle in the lower back and X-ray images of the cervical spinal canal are taken and interpreted.

Hospitals typically charge $1,555 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,976 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,638. Most fall between $818 and $2,845 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,976
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,976 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
$544$930$1,555$2,494$3,711

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($544 vs $3,711).

How the prices are spread

$353 – $456: 56 hospitals$353$456 – $590: 69 hospitals$590 – $763: 117 hospitals$590$763 – $988: 211 hospitals$988 – $1,277: 206 hospitals$988$1,277 – $1,652: 291 hospitals$1,652 – $2,138: 300 hospitals$1,652$2,138 – $2,765: 206 hospitals$2,765 – $3,577: 213 hospitals$2,765$3,577 – $4,627: 112 hospitals$3,577median $1,555price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,781 of 1,976 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$353$45656
$456$59069
$590$763117
$763$988211
$988$1,277206
$1,277$1,652291
$1,652$2,138300
$2,138$2,765206
$2,765$3,577213
$3,577$4,627112

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,555
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.94×

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 $1,555.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,556 across 46 hospitalsWA$1,556Idaho: median $1,871 across 13 hospitalsID$1,871Montana: median $406 across 16 hospitalsMT$406North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,319 across 48 hospitalsMN$1,319Illinois: median $1,776 across 81 hospitalsIL$1,776Wisconsin: median $1,657 across 77 hospitalsWI$1,657Michigan: median $1,379 across 65 hospitalsMI$1,379New York: median $1,286 across 67 hospitalsNY$1,286Massachusetts: median $1,501 across 23 hospitalsMA$1,501Oregon: median $1,656 across 37 hospitalsOR$1,656Nevada: median $852 across 10 hospitalsNV$852Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,932 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,932Iowa: median $1,553 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,553Indiana: median $2,525 across 67 hospitalsIN$2,525Ohio: median $2,573 across 118 hospitalsOH$2,573Pennsylvania: median $1,134 across 86 hospitalsPA$1,134New Jersey: median $1,054 across 51 hospitalsNJ$1,054Connecticut: median $975 across 12 hospitalsCT$975Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,069 across 135 hospitalsCA$2,069Utah: median $1,701 across 27 hospitalsUT$1,701Colorado: median $1,981 across 45 hospitalsCO$1,981Nebraska: median $1,074 across 30 hospitalsNE$1,074Missouri: median $1,701 across 48 hospitalsMO$1,701Kentucky: median $1,526 across 30 hospitalsKY$1,526West Virginia: median $1,233 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,233Virginia: median $1,997 across 43 hospitalsVA$1,997Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $907 across 35 hospitalsAZ$907New Mexico: median $1,217 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,217Kansas: median $2,845 across 28 hospitalsKS$2,845Arkansas: median $616 across 21 hospitalsAR$616Tennessee: median $558 across 46 hospitalsTN$558North Carolina: median $1,296 across 56 hospitalsNC$1,296South Carolina: median $2,421 across 36 hospitalsSC$2,421Oklahoma: median $1,082 across 41 hospitalsOK$1,082Louisiana: median $1,131 across 34 hospitalsLA$1,131Mississippi: median $731 across 39 hospitalsMS$731Alabama: median $1,352 across 33 hospitalsAL$1,352Georgia: median $1,795 across 63 hospitalsGA$1,795Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,630 across 143 hospitalsTX$1,630Florida: median $2,043 across 88 hospitalsFL$2,043
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,555. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS28$2,845+83%$1,497 – $4,772
Ohio OH118$2,573+65%$1,452 – $3,543
Indiana IN67$2,525+62%$1,036 – $3,590
South Carolina SC36$2,421+56%$1,182 – $2,785
California CA135$2,069+33%$1,145 – $3,821
Florida FL88$2,043+31%$1,214 – $3,147
Virginia VA43$1,997+28%$697 – $2,841
Colorado CO45$1,981+27%$1,143 – $2,838
South Dakota SD10$1,932+24%$1,932 – $3,936
Idaho ID13$1,871+20%$1,396 – $1,951
Georgia GA63$1,795+15%$1,384 – $3,113
Illinois IL81$1,776+14%$780 – $2,877
Utah UT27$1,701+9%$1,701 – $2,001
Missouri MO48$1,701+9%$781 – $2,815
Wisconsin WI77$1,657+7%$1,191 – $2,007
Oregon OR37$1,656+6%$1,201 – $2,487
Texas TX143$1,630+5%$1,186 – $3,442
Washington WA46$1,5560%$1,009 – $2,023
Iowa IA28$1,5530%$801 – $2,084
Kentucky KY30$1,526−2%$561 – $8,456
Massachusetts MA23$1,501−3%$1,003 – $2,241
Michigan MI65$1,379−11%$246 – $2,064
Alabama AL33$1,352−13%$715 – $2,475
Minnesota MN48$1,319−15%$723 – $2,634
North Carolina NC56$1,296−17%$745 – $2,116
New York NY67$1,286−17%$790 – $2,034
West Virginia WV17$1,233−21%$123 – $2,211
New Mexico NM10$1,217−22%$855 – $2,077
Pennsylvania PA86$1,134−27%$926 – $2,056
Louisiana LA34$1,131−27%$666 – $2,534
Oklahoma OK41$1,082−30%$690 – $2,042
Nebraska NE30$1,074−31%$497 – $1,746
New Jersey NJ51$1,054−32%$874 – $4,627
Connecticut CT12$975−37%$860 – $2,505
Arizona AZ35$907−42%$659 – $4,267
Nevada NV10$852−45%$227 – $1,120
Mississippi MS39$731−53%$459 – $960
Arkansas AR21$616−60%$551 – $1,766
Tennessee TN46$558−64%$396 – $1,154
Montana MT16$406−74%$232 – $997
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $1,555.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,682$1,581$855 – $2,850
Children’s27$1,551$703 – $3,227
Critical access258$1,384$558 – $2,623
Ownership
For-profit213$1,630$876 – $3,184
Government260$1,420$731 – $2,324
Non-profit1,494$1,586$831 – $2,850
System affiliation
Part of a system1,666$1,616$861 – $2,850
Independent310$1,396$640 – $2,494

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,801
Median cash price$1,555
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

1,511 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,721 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,768; most fall between $907 and $2,850.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,511 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
$645$1,054$1,721$2,625$3,598

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($645 vs $3,598).

Of the 1,623 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,511 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 64 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,976 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,131 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,976
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,131

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 Myelogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Myelography via Lumbar Injection Rs&I Cervical.

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, “Neck spine dye study with lower back injection and imaging (CPT 62302) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62302-neck-spine-dye-study-with-lower-back-injection-and-imaging